Your message dated Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:32:08 +0000
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and subject line Bug#609059: fixed in apticron 1.1.48
has caused the Debian Bug report #609059,
regarding apticron: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' should be suggested, to avoid diffs
between apt-get and aptitude
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Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.42
Severity: normal
I have a squeeze system where apitcron insists that diff and mktemp need to
be upgraded, and that aptitude full upgrade will do that for me.
The list of packages derives from the output of this:
root@zwiebel:/home/phil# /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --ignore-hold
--allow-unauthenticated -s dist-upgrade
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
diff mktemp
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst diff (1:3.0-1 Debian:testing [all])
Conf diff (1:3.0-1 Debian:testing [all])
Inst mktemp (8.5-1 Debian:testing [all])
Conf mktemp (8.5-1 Debian:testing [all])
which as we can see, would be resolved by apt-get dist-upgrade
root@zwiebel:/home/phil# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
diff mktemp
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/21.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 57.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
whereas, the recomended 'aptitude full-upgrade' thinks there's nothing to do:
root@zwiebel:/home/phil# aptitude full-upgrade
No packages will be installed, 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.
as it happens, aptitude is probably doing the right thing in this case, as the
versions of diff and mktemp are dummy packages, to smooth upgrades, so
installing
them would seem to be pointless. I'm going to install them anyway, to get
apticron to shut up.
I suppose the correct fix might be to make the script use aptitude to generate
apticron's list of upgrades, and it might make sense to resolve the differences
between apt-get and aptitude in this case, but the simplest change is to simply
suggest the use of apt-get in place of aptitude in the mail that is sent.
Having just installed diff, I find that when I then try to remove it, it's
essential,
so it seems that apt-get has it right in this case (since I would hope that I
would
have all the essential packages, even if they are just about to become obsolete)
The same goes for mktemp.
Cheers, Phil.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii apt 0.8.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
ii cron 3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon
ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy
ii mailx 1:20071201-3 Transitional package for mailx ren
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages apticron recommends:
ii apt-listchanges 2.85.7 package change history notificatio
ii iproute 20100519-3 networking and traffic control too
apticron suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
apticron/notification: root
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: apticron
Source-Version: 1.1.48
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apticron, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
apticron_1.1.48.dsc
to main/a/apticron/apticron_1.1.48.dsc
apticron_1.1.48.tar.gz
to main/a/apticron/apticron_1.1.48.tar.gz
apticron_1.1.48_all.deb
to main/a/apticron/apticron_1.1.48_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]> (supplier of updated apticron package)
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:10:47 -0300
Source: apticron
Binary: apticron
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.1.48
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]>
Description:
apticron - Simple tool to mail about pending package updates
Closes: 609059 621730
Changes:
apticron (1.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Suggesting apt-get dist-upgrade instead of aptitude, once apticron's
behavior comes from a list of packages generated by apt-get, which can
point some upgrades not considered by aptitude. Thanks to Philip Hands.
(Closes: #609059)
* Fixing NUM_PACKAGES which was not appearing in MAILX_SUBJECT. Thanks to
Sylvain Ferriol. (Closes: #621730)
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