Control: reassign -1 aptitude
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 03:49:12PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Source: apt
> Version: 2.7.12+nmu1
> Severity: serious
>
> While there are no upgrade issues with apt itself (according
> to "apt install -s apt"), aptitude does not want to upgrade
> apt automatically, while this just appears to be a package
> rename:
>
> # aptitude install apt
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> apt{b} apt-doc
> 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 180 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1622 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> apt : Depends: libapt-pkg6.0t64 (>= 2.7.12+nmu1) but it is not going to be
> installed
> apt-utils : Depends: apt (= 2.7.12) but 2.7.12+nmu1 is to be installed
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> 1) apt [2.7.12 (now, testing)]
>
> I don't know whether this is actually an issue with aptitude, but at
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059068#15
>
> David Kalnischkies says:
> | You should really know this by now as that isn't your first report, but
> | okay: Upgrade problems are NEVER a problem to be solved in apt,
> | they are ALWAYS a problem in the involved packages. NO EXCEPTIONS.
>
> So, I suppose that this is also the case for aptitude: if aptitude
> cannot upgrade just because of a rename, then this is a problem in
> the involved packages.
aptitude is not our chosen tool for distribution upgrades, as such
failures there are not release critical for the packages. So while
this is release critical for aptitude, it's a wishlist bug for apt
that probably would end up being closed.
I do believe the correct syntax for aptitude would be to use
aptitude upgrade apt
though
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