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and subject line Re: Bug#825915: [dpkg] --print-avail broken
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regarding [dpkg] --print-avail broken
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.7
Severity: important
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Something is wrong with --print-avail. It used to give usefule package
information for installed packages, but now it seems to be broken:
$LANG=C dpkg --print-avail reportbug
dpkg-query: package 'reportbug' is not available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
reportbug *is* installed on my system. However,
$ LANG=C dpkg --print-avail dpkg
works fine and shows the expected output. I'm using severity important,
as reportbug-ng needs --print-avail to get the package dependency
information, see below.
Cheers,
Bastian
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64
Debian Release: stretch/sid
500 unstable httpredir.debian.org 500 stable
dl.google.com 1 experimental httpredir.debian.org
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Dr. Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de
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Hi!
On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 14:07:50 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 12:26:02 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
> > Package: dpkg
> > Version: 1.18.7
> > Severity: important
>
> > Something is wrong with --print-avail. It used to give usefule package
> > information for installed packages, but now it seems to be broken:
>
> It has never printed information about installed packages, but about
> available ones (from repositories or external sources). What dpkg used
> to do was to update the available information whenever it installed
> a package, but that was in principle wrong, as dpkg didn't record the
> path to them and as such it had no way to know if those package might
> or might not be available. This is the case since dpkg 1.17.11.
>
> > $LANG=C dpkg --print-avail reportbug
> > dpkg-query: package 'reportbug' is not available
> > Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> > and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> >
> > reportbug *is* installed on my system. However,
>
> Sure, but dpkg is complaining that it has no information about the
> available packages (i.e. those from the repository).
>
> > $ LANG=C dpkg --print-avail dpkg
>
> > works fine and shows the expected output. I'm using severity important,
> > as reportbug-ng needs --print-avail to get the package dependency
> > information, see below.
>
> Are you sure it's printing information about the currently installed
> package and not an old version? Please compare with the output from
> «dpkg-query --status dpkg».
>
> In any case, if you need information about the currently installed
> package the correct interface is «dpkg-query --status» anyway. So I'm
> planning to close this report if there's no additional information
> indicating there's an actual bug here. :)
Ok, got confirmation off-bts that this works fine, thus closing.
Thanks,
Guillem
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