Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.5-3 Severity: normal Could this be a duplicate of #557580? I ran into this very same issue today (well, finally noticed it today). It appears a temporary fix is to re-create the single-file preferences: r...@neminis:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/* > /etc/apt/preferences
aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc8 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libboost-iostreams1.40. 1.40.0-6+b1 Boost.Iostreams Library ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.30 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library ii liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1.1 A logging library for C++ ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23-1 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.18-1 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.25 maintenance tools for a Xapian ind ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.1.5-3 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii sensible-utils 0.0.2 Utilities for sensible alternative Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) pn tasksel <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
