Package: apticron Version: 1.1.59 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer, first I should mention that I never used apticron myself, but I borrowed the part of the apticron script that generates the list of upgradable packages for a custom script here. Since the affected command line is also still present in the latest apticron package, I assume this problem applies to apticron, too. If I am mistaken with that, I apologize in advance. Today I noticed that on debian testing my script did not work any longer, since the call of PKGNAMES=`/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated -s dist-upgrade... stopped with an error message, because an update for a held package is available and --allow-change-held-packages was missing from the command line. I am not 100% sure, but I think a couple days ago this still used to work, so I guess that this is caused by a recent update to apt-1.3 which appears to break the usability of this use of command line options. The solution I found and which (at least in my script) appears to work well, is to change the command line into PKGNAMES=`/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated --allow-downgrades --allow-remove-essential --allow-change-held-packages -s dist-upgrade... According to the apt-get manpage this should work with apt versions >= 1.1 . Best regards Michael Lange -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apticron depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.8.3 ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 ii dpkg 1.17.27 ii heirloom-mailx [mailx] 12.5-4 ii ucf 3.0030 Versions of packages apticron recommends: ii apt-listchanges 2.85.13+nmu1 ii iproute2 3.16.0-2 apticron suggests no packages.