>>The bug is caused by libxmlrpc-lite-perl and libsoap-lite-perl >>libsoap-lite-perl depends libxmlrpc-lite-perl, while the latter one >>recommends the previous one. >>The step to reproduce: >>1.Install libsoap-lite-perl, make sure libxmlrpc-lite-perl is marked as >>auto-installed 2.Select package libsoap-lite-perl, Press 'M' >>3.Press 'g' >>4.Select libxmlrpc-lite-perl or libsoap-lite-perl, press '_' >>5.crash > > I cannot reproduce it as it is, maybe because I have devscripts > installed, which recommends libsoap-lite-perl. Today I uninstalled maint-guide and devscripts on my work computer and found this. > > But interested to know, do you have ::Purge-Unused enabled in (user or > root's) ~/.aptitude/config ? Can you post that file? On my old laptop, aptitude crash when "_" or "-" pkg postgresql-9.4 with the same backtrace. /root/.aptitude/config content on this machine:
aptitude ""; aptitude::Keep-Unused-Pattern ""; aptitude::Delete-Unused-Pattern ""; aptitude::UI ""; aptitude::UI::Menubar-Autohide "true"; aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M%S %p %Z %t %v %V"; aptitude::UI::Package-Status-Format "%d %t"; aptitude::UI::Advance-On-Action "false"; aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update "true"; I can not reproduce both of them on my new laptop, on which two more lines in /root/.aptitude/config: APT ""; APT::Install-Recommends "false"; If I remove these two lines, the bug can be reproduced on my new laptop. Thanks