Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: normal Hi!
in #debian, we were looking at the output from "aptitude versions ~ndovecot" to check that the right packages were installed. The output included: Package dovecot-common: p 1:2.0.15-1 100 p 1:2.1.7-6 testing 500 And the obvious question was "why is dovecot-common being shown twice here. There's no archive shown, so it's not that it is also available from stable (or backports) and it's shown in a "p" state so it's not just because apt still knows about the package because config files are around... or is it? On my own system, I was able to replicate and investigate this with the package "global" that I had recently installed and removed (some build-dep or other, I guess). I see the following output from aptitude and dpkg which shows that "aptitude versions" is incorrectly reporting the state of removed-but-not-purged packages: $ aptitude search ~c c global - Source code search and browse tools $ dpkg-query -f'${Status}' --show global deinstall ok config-files $ aptitude versions ~n^global$ Package global: p 5.7.1-2 testing,unstable 550 $ aptitude versions ~n^global$ -F"state=%C action=%A %p %t %i" Package global: state=purged action=none 5.7.1-2 testing,unstable 550 $ aptitude show global | grep State State: not installed It would be much more useful if "aptitude versions" were to get the state of the package right for exactly this sort of situation. cheers Stuart -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov 5 2012 06:20:41 Compiler: g++ 4.7.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77ae000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb722a000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb71f7000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb71d6000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb71d1000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb70d1000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb703e000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6e55000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6e3b000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6d8a000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6d72000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d59000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c6d000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c46000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6c29000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6ac6000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6ac2000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6abe000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6aac000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6aa6000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6a9d000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77af000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (550, 'testing-updates'), (550, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (550, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) 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 aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.2-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.7 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libxapian22 1.2.12-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.2-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags 1.10.1 ii tasksel 3.14 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org