On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:28:30 +0100 Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > Package: apt-listbugs > Version: 0.1.6 > Severity: normal
Hi Francesco, thanks for your bug report! > > This is the preferences contents: > ---- [...] > Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Tue Mar 13 22:59:46 +0100 2012 > Package: libmysqlclient > Pin: version * > Pin-Priority: -30000 [...] > ---- > > Running /etc/cron.daily/apt-listbugs gives the following error: > > > E: comando sconosciuto 'libmysqlclient'. [...] This issue seems to be caused by the pinning for libmysqlclient, which has an "Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs [...]" line (which makes it recognized as a pin managed by apt-listbugs), but no "Explanation: #nnnnnn: [...]" line. Hence, it's not clear which is the bug (or which are the bugs) that made you decide to pin the package. Did you tamper with /etc/apt/preferences manually? To work around the bug, please either (A) discard the "Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs [...]" line from the libmysqlclient pin stanza: after doing this, that stanza will be out of apt-listbugs jurisdiction and you will have to manage the libmysqlclient pinning manually (since it won't be automatically discarded by /etc/cron.daily/apt-listbugs) or (B) add at least one "Explanation: #nnnnnn: [...]" line to the libmysqlclient pin stanza: you should specify which bug(s) made you decide to pin libmysqlclient (that is to say, "the bug(s) that you fear"): after doing this, /etc/cron.daily/apt-listbugs should be able again to automatically manage this pin stanza All that said, I acknowledge that what you found seems to be indeed a bug in apt-listbugs. Most probably, /usr/share/apt-listbugs/aptcleanup (or maybe /usr/share/apt-listbugs/debian/apt_preferences.rb) should be made more robust, so that it may handle these cases without spitting out errors and giving up in despair! I will try to reproduce the bug and see how it can be fixed. I hope to find the time soon... :-/ -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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