Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 Severity: important
Just reporting that this bug is still present in 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 P.S. Supplemental comment on why I agree with the original reporter that this is an Important class bug (besides the formal justification that it can break the whole system). The usage scenario most likely to trigger this bug is having an out of date site local mirror of one of the time-sensitive archives (security, volatile or backports) and listing that before its upstream in sources.list (so package files in the local mirror can get downloaded without incurring bandwidth costs on the outside line, while not missing more recent updates not yet in the local mirror, I am aware that this might only work on days when the local mirror is up to date, but it still saves on total bandwidth costs). In that scenario, the abortive behavior causes aptitude to sometimes think large parts of Debian don't exist, resulting in meaningless upgrade/downgrade/removal suggestions, such as wanting to upgrade all packages to their backports variants when this bug prevents download of the non-expired package files of the main Debian archive. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
