Package: debtags Version: 1.7.8.1 Severity: normal 'debtags update' (or rather the /usr/share/debtags/fetch script) simply parses all /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages files without considering that some of these files may be no longer in use and contain obsolete information. This causes problems with our software that relies on debtags; it expects /var/lib/debtags/package-tags to contain only packages that are actually available in the repository, but due to this bug this file also contains packages that are mentioned in old lists but that are no longer available.
The problem is aggravated by aptitude bug #507603 on lenny which causes old lists to pile up in /var/lib/apt/lists. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debtags depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2+lenny2 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime debtags recommends no packages. Versions of packages debtags suggests: pn tagcoll <none> (no description available) ii wget 1.11.4-2+lenny2 retrieves files from the web -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
