Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Running "aptitude --log-level=debug build-dep mutt" produces: Unable to satisfy the build-depends: Build-Depends: libgpgme11-dev Unable to apply some actions, aborting I see a few bugs here: 1) If I omit "--log-level=debug" I get the same output. So it's unfortunate that the "debug" logging level does not clear up the extreme vagueness of the output. 2) The libgpgme11-dev package is already installed. So aptitude should not even be attempting to install it in the first place. 3) "Unable to satisfy.." is too vague, and also printing "..build-depends: Build-Depends:.." is redundant. 4) "Unable to apply some actions" is too vague. What actions? It's also important to point out that apt-get has no problem. That is, running "apt-get build-dep mutt" shows: Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: comerr-dev krb5-multidev libgnutls28-dev libgnutlsxx28 libgssrpc4 libidn11-dev libkadm5clnt-mit11 libkadm5srv-mit11 libkdb5-8 libkrb5-dev libncursesw5-dev libnotmuch-dev libp11-kit-dev libsasl2-dev libtasn1-6-dev libtokyocabinet-dev nettle-dev zlib1g-dev 0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4,411 kB of archives. After this operation, 15.2 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] and apt-get simply works in this case. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: screen.xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.7 Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170406 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.1 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.1 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff9b260000) /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/torsocks/libtorsocks.so (0x00007fb9a8c2b000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fb9a8879000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fb9a8649000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fb9a841f000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fb9a8218000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fb9a7f1b000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fb9a7c13000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fb9a79fb000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fb9a77e2000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fb9a75de000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fb9a71ca000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fb9a6fad000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fb9a6c2b000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb9a6927000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fb9a6710000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb9a6371000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb9a616d000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fb9a5f56000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb9a5d3c000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fb9a5b2c000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fb9a5906000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fb9a56f4000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fb9a54ec000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fb9a52e7000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb9a9457000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=1509112945 WARNING torsocks[10625]: [syscall] Unsupported syscall number 217. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall() at syscall.c:488) UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=1509112945 WARNING torsocks[10627]: [syscall] Unsupported syscall number 217. Denying the call (in tsocks_syscall() at syscall.c:488) UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.7-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.8 ii libboost-filesystem1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-5 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 ii libxapian30 1.4.3-2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.39