[Aptitude-devel] Bug#895217: aptitude: Uses hostname of repo to determine what is a security update instead of repo metadata

2018-04-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > aptitude uses the hostname of APT repository (e.g. "security.debian.org" > to determine what is a security update and what isn't instead of using > the repository metadata provided by apt's libraries. JFTR: This was prompted by https://bugs.launchpad

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#895217: aptitude: Uses hostname of repo to determine what is a security update instead of repo metadata

2018-04-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 Severity: normal Tags: confirmed upstream aptitude uses the hostname of APT repository (e.g. "security.debian.org" to determine what is a security update and what isn't instead of using the repository metadata provided by apt's libraries. >From

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#894455: aptitude: Segfault while scrolling through package list

2018-03-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 Hi, aptitude (running inside GNU Screen) just segfaulted while browsing with "cursor down" through the "Obsolete and locally installed packages" list: $ gdb -q aptitude-curses /var/crash/0/23865-0-0-11-1522417552-c-cactus2--usr-bin-aptitude-curses.core

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#894332: Bug#894332: aptitude fails to follow free desktop basedir specifications

2018-03-29 Thread Axel Beckert
IIRC we discussed that already once in the past when $XDG_CACHE_HOME got implemented and decided against it at least back then. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `'

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#893082: Bug#893082: Bug#893082: Recommended packages not installed with safe-upgrade

2018-03-16 Thread Axel Beckert
mends to stay consistent. This should happen if --with-recommends and --no-new-installs are both given on the commandline. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `'

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#893082: Bug#893082: Recommended packages not installed with safe-upgrade

2018-03-16 Thread Axel Beckert
sn't make sense? > Shouldn't they be installed by default? Yes, but this still doesn't answer the question how this can be combined with safe-upgrade at all. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.d

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#892983: Bug#892983 + Bug#892984: please allow filtering on/displaying the release 'label'/'suite'

2018-03-15 Thread Axel Beckert
e CLI interface of aptitude. > Please see #892983 for further details. … and ?suite() would be indeed a very nice addition. So thanks for the patch (and patch template)! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' :

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#891239: Bug#891239: aptitude: FTBFS with libncursesw6

2018-02-23 Thread Axel Beckert
can't do this yet. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#890469: Bug#890469: aptitude: sometimes fails to resolve dependencies in a good way with '+' in the UI

2018-02-14 Thread Axel Beckert
neither of the two alternative versioned dependencies are fulfilled, hence it tries to fulfill the first alternative dependency. The remainder seems to be a "local optimum" issue it doesn't find to escape itself in time. It probably will find the right solution later if you continue to

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#889924: Bug#889924: [aptitude] Feature request - For changelog download command, can acceptable Origins be configurable? Devuan

2018-02-08 Thread Axel Beckert
that, they won't get any farther — neither here nor anywhere else. Regards, Axel (running Debian Unstable with sysvinit or openrc) -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#888469: Bug#888469: aptitude: build-dep gmime fails

2018-01-25 Thread Axel Beckert
aborting This is https://bugs.debian.org/509100 ("aptitude: build-dep fails when a virtual package is needed"): libgpgme11-dev is a virtual package. Hence merging. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | D

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887739: Bug#887739: --simulate download now broken

2018-01-19 Thread Axel Beckert
gt; E: Failed to execute: > 'apt --simulate download php7.1-imap' > E: The process or trying to execute it exited with status/errno: 100 So basically aptitude should just tell you that it would call 'apt download php7.1-imap'? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Be

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887624: Bug#887624: $? still 0 despite error

2018-01-18 Thread Axel Beckert
a well-known issue I'm quite sure that there exists a _wishlist_ bug report for years. There was the 0.6.9 branch which had this fixed, but it opened tons of other regressions and was hence was dropped as a dead end.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.or

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887421: Bug#887421: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl/man8': Directory not empty

2018-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
nt locations for that call look sane and normal and just simply moving them around might break other things. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#887421: Bug#887421: dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/man/gl/man8': Directory not empty

2018-01-16 Thread Axel Beckert
hese restrictions with the next upload. I've allowed myself to retitle this bug report towards that issue since the original one is a non-issue. I've set the severity only to important since this so far had no real-life impact. Feel free to bump the severity to serious iff this caus

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#885436: Bug#885436: /var/log/aptitude shows wrong architecture for architecture:all packages

2018-01-01 Thread Axel Beckert
ted it): → apt-cache show wml | egrep '^(Package|Version|Architecture|$)' Package: wml Version: 2.4.1ds1-2 Architecture: all Package: wml Version: 2.0.12ds1-10+b2 Architecture: amd64 (That's wml in unstable/testing and experimental currently.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Bec

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#877716: Bug#877716: qalculate: Removing qalculate removes qalculate-gtk

2017-12-12 Thread Axel Beckert
would also be interesting what the output of this command is on your machine. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#877716: qalculate: Removing qalculate removes qalculate-gtk

2017-12-12 Thread Axel Beckert
install quite a lot of packages unexpectedly.) > Please fix the above error. I currently see no error which needs to be fixed, especially no error message. The only thing I see here is a potentially missing feature and an otherwise perfectly working aptitude. Thanks to Mattia for making me a

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#884028: aptitude: Accpeting a suggested conflict resolution after marking a to be upgraded version as forbidden. removes the "forbidden" mark

2017-12-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-1 Severity: minor Hi, due to https://bugs.debian.org/884027 I've marked the upgrade for marble-data as forbidden with "F" and then accepted the suggested 7 keeps with "!". Afterwards the marble-data upgrade was no more marked as forbidden: After pressing "U":

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#883242: Bug#883242: aptitude: lists packages from non-Debian origins as "The main Debian archive"

2017-12-01 Thread Axel Beckert
ered me enough that I even thought about documenting it in a bug report. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837366: Bug#837366: aptitude: Crash when typing while saying "Updating ... and quitting" (found in 0.8.10-1)

2017-11-23 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: found -1 0.8.10-1 Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > I just ran into #837366 with 0.8.4-1, hence reopening it: > > Writing extended state information 10[1]27840 > segmentation fault (core dumped) aptitude -u Today I accidentially typed into the wrong wind

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#881422: Bug#881422: aptitude changelog hangs waiting on futex

2017-11-11 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: tag -1 + confirmed Hi Dominique, Dominique Brazziel wrote: > aptitude changelog hangs waiting on futex Indeed, I can reproduce the issue here. Thanks for the bug report! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#879965: Bug#879965: aptitude: build-dep fails with vague (& probably bogus) error

2017-10-27 Thread Axel Beckert
get build-dep mutt" shows: Also common with #509100. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#879709: Bug#879709: cannot install unar

2017-10-24 Thread Axel Beckert
, such cases are no bug in the packaging tools, but either packages or the local system. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#878177: Bug#878177: aptitude: Use of the word "invalid" in error msgs should be restored to meaning

2017-10-10 Thread Axel Beckert
error message is emitted by the program aptitude, it comes from apt's libraries' usage of GPG, so reassigning to apt, too. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#878166: Bug#878166: aptitude: feature request: admins should determine their security stand team

2017-10-10 Thread Axel Beckert
ing about: > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Sha1Removal That's "Apt", not "Aptitude" in that link. Reassigning accordingly. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Deb

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#877948: aptitude: false error: "The following signatures were invalid" (gpg con good)

2017-10-08 Thread Axel Beckert
too, but I was too tired to properly check that suspicion before going to bed. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#873791: [python-numpy] Undefined symbols on several architectures

2017-08-31 Thread Axel Beckert
tude, etc. without fiddling with hook configurations or using dpkg to purge apprecommender. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' |

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#799934: Bug#800570: Bug#799934: aptitude: Package metadata disappears for upgradable installed packages

2017-07-05 Thread Axel Beckert
erivatives (Kali IIRC) or with 3rd party repositories. So I wonder if its related to the repository format. Does it happen for you with official Debian repositories or with 3rd party repositories? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, ht

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#867006: Bug#867006: aptitude crashes with Uncaught exception: ../../src/ui.cc:1548: void auto_fix_broken(): Assertion "resman->resolver_exists()" failed.

2017-07-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: tag -1 + confirmed Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > Not sure if it's really the same problem as in Sven's #866974 case > (which I can reproduce in the TUI and on the commandline) there was no > hard exiting (I wouldn't call it crash, but that's nitpicking) due to > a Ass

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#866974: Bug#867006: aptitude crashes with Uncaught exception: ../../src/ui.cc:1548: void auto_fix_broken(): Assertion "resman->resolver_exists()" failed.

2017-07-03 Thread Axel Beckert
the same problem as in Sven's #866974 case (which I can reproduce in the TUI and on the commandline) there was no hard exiting (I wouldn't call it crash, but that's nitpicking) due to a Assertion being not true. Hence not merging for the moment. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel B

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#863755: Bug#863755: [aptitude] "This code path should not be reached" message with some override specifiers

2017-06-07 Thread Axel Beckert
lled, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Would download/install/remove packages. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.d

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#863705: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol:

2017-05-30 Thread Axel Beckert
bug report. For now, I leave it at RC. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 612

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816781: Bug#816781: aptitude: Can not cancel pending upgrade actions

2017-05-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Cesare, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > On 29/05/2017 11:31, Axel Beckert wrote: > >Before you press the corresponding menu entry, but after already > >having selected it, aptitude will show the following long description > >in the status line: > > > > Cancel all

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816781: Bug#816781: aptitude: Can not cancel pending upgrade actions

2017-05-29 Thread Axel Beckert
s of this session * Cancel all pending actions or similar. For now, what should do what you want is calling "aptitude keep-all" on the commandline. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#859907: aptitude: crashes with SIGABRT on changelog download if $LANG contains an invalid value

2017-04-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.6-1 Severity: normal Hi, I just ran into a corner case which causes a crash of aptitude: → env LANG=foobar aptitude changelog aptitude terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#729526: ssh.deb: somewhat misleading description

2017-04-01 Thread Axel Beckert
out removals (excessively so in this case). I agree here, too. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5

[Aptitude-devel] Please giveback aptitude/0.8.6-1 on mips64el (was: Please giveback aptitude/0.8.5-1 on mips64el)

2017-03-06 Thread Axel Beckert
Dear mips64el Buildd Admins, can you please giveback aptitude/0.8.6-1 on mips64el? Axel Beckert wrote on 25. Jan. 2017: > According to > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=aptitude=mips64el=0.8.5-1=1485311229=0 > something (probably xsltproc) segfaulted while build

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852686: Bug#852686: Bug#852686: aptitude.xml:753: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: keycombo line 746 and para

2017-01-26 Thread Axel Beckert
ge development happens. This is also declared in the Vcs-Git header of the aptitude source package: Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/aptitude/aptitude.git -b debian-sid The master branch is meant for upstream development. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert &

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852686: Bug#852686: Bug#852686: aptitude.xml:753: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: keycombo line 746 and para

2017-01-26 Thread Axel Beckert
ptitude from Git and does not use Git HEAD then (like us developers). Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 1

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852686: Bug#852686: aptitude.xml:753: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: keycombo line 746 and para

2017-01-26 Thread Axel Beckert
T_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt push -a" manually. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852666: Bug#852666: "Can't figure out where Google Mock lives" although it is installed

2017-01-26 Thread Axel Beckert
ing against google-mock versions before 1.8.0. This means that we probably should restrict the google-mock build-dependency to ">= 1.8.0". Will take care of that. > What could be done to work around this issue? Probably installing a newer version of google-mock. Reg

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Please giveback aptitude/0.8.5-1 on mips64el

2017-01-25 Thread Axel Beckert
Axel Beckert wrote: > can you please giveback aptitude/0.8.5-1 on mips64el? Thanks! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5

[Aptitude-devel] Please giveback aptitude/0.8.5-1 on mips64el

2017-01-25 Thread Axel Beckert
on other architectures and is architecture-independent). Even though it's no more mentioned in the /topic of #debian-devel, I assume that's of the recently shown up build problems on mips64el. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.or

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#269097: Processed: found 269097 in 0.8.4

2017-01-24 Thread Axel Beckert
gt; Unable to make a source version for version '0.8.4' the Debian BTS thinks in Debian uploads, not in upstream versions. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `'

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852212: Bug#852212: installing and then purging sometimes leaves behind cruft

2017-01-22 Thread Axel Beckert
might have helped you in the first place. I'll go over those documentation bug reports in some calm hours, but probably not before the Stretch release. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.c

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#851901: aptitude: "E: Internal Error, No file name for apt-build:amd64" after failed reinstallation of apt-build, then endless loop "Can't find a source to download version '0.12.

2017-01-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > Will now try to get out of that mess. Will post it here, once I > found a way out of this state. "aptitude keep apt-build" on the commandline at least got me out of the endless loop in the TUI. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#851901: aptitude: "E: Internal Error, No file name for apt-build:amd64" after failed reinstallation of apt-build, then endless loop "Can't find a source to download version '0.12.

2017-01-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.4-1 Severity: serious Justification: Maintainer's opinion Hi, to reproduce https://bugs.debian.org/851814, I pressed L on apt-build in aptitude's TUI. As expected the configuration of the reinstalled package failed. So far no problem. But afterwards, when I want

[Aptitude-devel] Please giveback aptitude/0.8.4-1 on mips64el: possibly a full disk

2017-01-11 Thread Axel Beckert
-- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE signature.asc Description: D

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#848898: Bug#848898: libapt-pkg.so.4.12: invalid ELF header

2016-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
, that does sound better. > i think i will reinstall the system later. im currently backing up my > homedirectory. Probably the best thing, yes. I'll hence close this bug report with this mail. > thanks for the help. You're welcome. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beck

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#848898: Bug#848898: libapt-pkg.so.4.12: invalid ELF header

2016-12-20 Thread Axel Beckert
was a stable/unstable mixup when writing the bug report? If not: Are there any traces of a file system corruption (e.g. in the output of dmesg or so)? What does "debsums -c apt libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12" or "dpkg --verify apt libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12" say?

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#848011: Bug#848011: aptitude doesn't ask for confirmation of removal for "markauto", leading to surprise removals

2016-12-13 Thread Axel Beckert
any chance to add the old behaviour as optional feature/backwards compatibility flag (e.g. --immediately), feel free to remove the wontfix tag. (Then again, there's an easy workaround to get the old behaviour as shown above...) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debia

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#847089: Bug#847089: aptitude: resolver mishandles OR'ed versioned Recommends

2016-12-05 Thread Axel Beckert
n. Then go to the parent Recommends branch and mark the "Recommends" for installation with "+", and voila: Two alternative and conflicting packages are selected for installation despite one of them was already selected. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debia

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#818919: Bug#818919: aptitude runs wild

2016-11-22 Thread Axel Beckert
ipIndexes related issues are gone now. Will later check on a much slower machine (an EeePC 900). Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841227: Bug#841227: aptitude break after install a net pkg

2016-11-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 148

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#843536: Bug#843536: Setting a package on hold resets the auto flag

2016-11-22 Thread Axel Beckert
at least in the TUI (where it happens immediately). I also checked older versions: This is a relatively new bug and it doesn't happen in Jessie or Wheezy. So it likely has been introduced with one of the 0.7.x or 0.8.x versions. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#845310: Bug#845310: aptitude: Update>>"Loading cache" stuck (loop/wait forever) for buggy(?) repo

2016-11-22 Thread Axel Beckert
https://bugs.debian.org/838560) which is not yet solved. But we're fully aware of it. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#844300: Bug#844300: Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

2016-11-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Control: tag -1 - moreinfo Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-11-22 12:36:32 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > In any case, if the dependencies are correct, the package system > > > should never be put in a broken state. > >

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#844300: Bug#844300: nvidia-driver-libs:amd64: upgrade failure due to dependency issue

2016-11-22 Thread Axel Beckert
with apt or apt-get leads to the same issue? (If so, it's clearly no issue in aptitude.) Additionally it could be helpful to provide a state bundle (man aptitude-create-state-bundle) of the situation, either before the issue appears (if you can reproduce it) or directly after it has happened. TIA!

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-03 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > The main reason is that ~A does (as most of aptitude's patterns) > substring matching, […] > * aptitude's ~A pattern matches substrings of the Archive value in the > Release file. Sven is of course right, and it's regular expression matching a

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude ~A question

2016-11-03 Thread Axel Beckert
//aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html#searchArchive but I must admit, it's not perfect as it does not help with your question. Hope this helps. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Devel

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#842778: Bug#842778: option to turn of "forget new" dialog?

2016-11-01 Thread Axel Beckert
Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 20

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

2016-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
ot;forbid-version" in aptitude due to an RC bug in the most recent version.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E6

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

2016-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
db, but after that, any changes apt makes are > no longer applied to aptitude. > > Is this not happening for you? Seems not, no. But then again, I'm using aptitude most of the time and apt only in a few percent of all cases. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Becke

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

2016-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
titude seems to no longer read the > autobit state from apt. Thanks for all these details! Seems as if there are still some corner cases where aptitude doesn't sync the autoinstalled bit properly -- changing an autoinstalled bit manually without any install/remove action seems to such a case according to

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

2016-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
ally, usually in aptitude's TUI.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

2016-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
? I have a slight suspicion that aptitude and apt might refer to different architectures of gobject-introspection in this case (in which both might be correct, just not displaying the expected or multiple packages). Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.o

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841347: Bug#841347: packages are not marked as auto "i A" in aptitude

2016-10-19 Thread Axel Beckert
days they do. > or is aptitude tracking this information on its own? It did it before apt did and hence used its own database in the past. But that was fixed IIRC years ago. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' :

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837366: aptitude: #839792 (Segfaults when typing (into aptitude) during or maybe shortly before package download) and #837366 (Crash when typing while saying "Updating ... and qui

2016-10-10 Thread Axel Beckert
ot;) might be the same issue or at least related. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-|

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#839792: aptitude: Segfaults when typing (into aptitude) during or maybe shortly before package download

2016-10-04 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 Hi, I can reproducible make aptitude crash with a segmentation fault if I press "b" during (or maybe shortly before) the package download. I also tried a few other keys like e.g. "n" or "/". Also crashes. Even pressing "q" crashes. Two backtraces, both

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#838560: aptitude: "aptitude -u" hangs indefinitely at "Loading cache" if an APT repo results in a 404 (maybe APT 1.3 related)

2016-09-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > As every day, I ran "aptitude -u". But for one or two days (not sure if > before or after the APT 1.3 final upload), all Opera APT repos gave a > 404. (They no more do, so I can't reproduce it anymore with these repos, > but will late

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#838560: aptitude: "aptitude -u" hangs indefinitely at "Loading cache" if an APT repo results in a 404 (maybe APT 1.3 related)

2016-09-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Severity: normal As every day, I ran "aptitude -u". But for one or two days (not sure if before or after the APT 1.3 final upload), all Opera APT repos gave a 404. (They no more do, so I can't reproduce it anymore with these repos, but will later try to get a

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837946: Bug#837946: aptitude full-upgrade also fubar

2016-09-21 Thread Axel Beckert
TUI interactively and /root/.cache/aptitude/ may also contain some files. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837971: Bug#837971: aptitude: [PATCH] Distinguish Debian-specific and upstream upgrades

2016-09-17 Thread Axel Beckert
Not sure where you've read that the transition should be _after_ Debian 9 is released. I read it as if the plan was to transition _before_ the freeze for Debian 9 is started. And hence it looks perfectly fine to me that the bug is marked as done. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beck

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837971: Bug#837971: aptitude: [PATCH] Distinguish Debian-specific and upstream upgrades

2016-09-17 Thread Axel Beckert
hat like security updates and give new upstream versions a new foldable branch in the TUI. While I'd use that, I think such a bold (sic!) distinction should be made optional. (I also wonder if that could be established by pure configuration changes. But then again IIRC the preview tab is not that

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837946: Bug#837946: aptitude: actions causing »aptitude received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.«

2016-09-16 Thread Axel Beckert
issue? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837971: Bug#837971: aptitude: [PATCH] Distinguish Debian-specific and upstream upgrades

2016-09-16 Thread Axel Beckert
. So thanks for having already included a patch! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D:

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#837366: aptitude: Crash when typing while saying "Updating ... and quitting"

2016-09-10 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1 Hi Manuel, after an aptitude "Performing actions" run I typed "q" and pressed enter. While the "Updating … and quitting" screen was shown I already started to type "update-alternatives --config" and aptitude segfaulted with the following backtraces: warning:

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#836522: marked as done (don't not show non-existent file names)

2016-09-04 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi David, > Closing as not-a-bug for the aptitude maintainers with my libapt hat on > as it is my 'fault' and they couldn't change anything about it even if > they wanted to. Thanks! Much appreciated! Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debia

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#836265: Bug#836265: aptitude: keeps reselecting sysvinit

2016-09-01 Thread Axel Beckert
ur sources.list, too? If so, the bug might be that aptitude considers any version essential even if only a non-candidate version is marked as essential. Could you please check that? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#836263: Bug#836263: aptitude: safe-upgrade removes dirmngr and gnupg-l10n

2016-09-01 Thread Axel Beckert
so probably a non-comparable case. But I agree, that this shouldn't happen on a safe-upgrade. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA9

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#835372: Bug#835372: Bug#835372: aptitude: behavior change with 0.7.6 with packages that can't be installed breaking automated installations

2016-08-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Assuming that you don't want to switch back to the previous command > > line behavior please at least consider providing an option > > (APT::Get::...) > > You probably meant "Aptitude::…". > > I agree that providing s

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#835372: Bug#835372: aptitude: behavior change with 0.7.6 with packages that can't be installed breaking automated installations

2016-08-24 Thread Axel Beckert
h non-zero value and errors which were not represented in the exit code. So relying on such inconsistent behaviour is IMHO even dangerous. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834790: Bug#834790: aptitude hangs at "Loading cache" when unable to download package list

2016-08-19 Thread Axel Beckert
y impact a first-time install if a bad mirror > is chosen. I disagree here. As far as I know, aptitude was never used inside the d-i and is not even installed by default anymore. Hence removing that tag. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://pe

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834402: Bug#834402: aptitude: search loses column format when redirected or piped

2016-08-15 Thread Axel Beckert
gned columns. Maybe some different options being set via configuration files? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834402: Bug#834402: aptitude: search loses column format when redirected or piped

2016-08-15 Thread Axel Beckert
dth using `-w` in every `aptitude search ... | less`, > especially when it's a significant deviation from previous behaviour. I agree here, but I'm still not sure what's the best way to handle this case. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://pe

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#834073: Bug#834073: aptitude search gives less results than apt-cache search

2016-08-11 Thread Axel Beckert
i - Marathi environment task-marathi-desktop - Marathi desktop So unless you want to change aptitude's default, I don't see any bug here and would like to close this bug report again. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833423: Bug#833423: aptitude says packages are broken just because we didn't upgrade to our target (experimental)?

2016-08-08 Thread Axel Beckert
us to start aptitude in exactly the same environment. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-|

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833423: Bug#833423: aptitude says packages are broken just because we didn't upgrade to our target (experimental)?

2016-08-08 Thread Axel Beckert
Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 20

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833482: Bug#833482: aptitude: doesn't detect obsolete candidate package (versions)

2016-08-06 Thread Axel Beckert
ases but works for me as commandline alias well enough for years now.) We might consider adding such a branch to aptitude's TUI, but at least the implementation above is rather slow, so unless we find a more efficient pattern or some other more direct way, I'd not add that. (So Manuel's "

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833310: Bug#833310: option to make "forget new" non-interactive as before

2016-08-06 Thread Axel Beckert
h of the New Packages list. Now you press "f" and one machine already forgot the New Packages list while the other still needs you to press "". But if you press "" on both, the Testing machine opens one level of the Upgradable Packages list instead. Does this h

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#832363: Bug#832363: "forget-new" with minibuffer-style prompt looks broken

2016-07-24 Thread Axel Beckert
it: I have aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts always on and he has it always off. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2F

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#822272: aptitude: No more forgets reinstallation instruction after reinstallation has happened

2016-06-11 Thread Axel Beckert
for me, yes. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C

Re: [Aptitude-devel] aptitude: close failed in file object destructor: sys.excepthook is missing lost sys.stderr

2016-06-10 Thread Axel Beckert
open. Can't imagine how this should be possible. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F06

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#826941: Bug#826941: aptitude: inconsistent decisions for auto-installed package removal / empty list for the reason

2016-06-10 Thread Axel Beckert
in the 4.6 kernel's postinst and no more sports 4.5 kernel packages in APT::NeverAutoRemove. Hence it will be allowed to consider these packages to be removed at the next aptitude run while it wasn't in the previous one. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@d

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#814038: Bug#814038: aptitude: Provide a way to reverse order with any of the available sorting criterias

2016-06-10 Thread Axel Beckert
>probably changes more often than the negation character). > >> > >>I can take care of that. […] > >Please do, and add the sort criteria as well. > > Any chance of addressing this soon? Thanks for the reminder, but probably not, at least not this weekend.

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#435829: aptitude-[create|run]-state-bundle commands very annoying

2016-06-07 Thread Axel Beckert
ution is simple anyway, just adding the extra space, or creating > aliases if the same mistakes happen too often, etc. Or switching to zsh. ;-) SCNR, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#826624: Bug#826624: aptitude can't be stopped with "Q" but only with ^T and going down there

2016-06-07 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Albrecht, Albrecht Herzog wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 11:49:53AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Hi Albert, Sorry for misspelling of your name in my previous mail. > > > I've got it when using "Q" > > Of course I did > > > Did you press &q

[Aptitude-devel] Bug#826624: Bug#826624: aptitude can't be stopped with "Q" but only with ^T and going down there

2016-06-07 Thread Axel Beckert
e narrow down the issue: * Does it happen always or occassionally? Or did it happen only once so far? * Do you have a chance to reproduce it? If so, can you also try to reproduce it in a Debian Unstable or Debian Testing environment? (A chroot or VM should suffice.) Regards, Axel --

Re: [Aptitude-devel] Aptitude Filtering by Manually Installed packages

2016-06-02 Thread Axel Beckert
mit", then enter "!~M" as filter. The commandline version needs the additional "~i" to limit the output to installed packages while this is not necessary in the TUI as that's one of the grouping properties. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert &l

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