2016-12-24 02:55 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
This seems to be due to changes in behaviour of apt or some strange interaction, because the relevant sections of aptitude have not changed in a long time. (I didn't experience the same behaviour because I couldn't upgrade my computer at the time). [...] Anyway, I think that I fixed it now, by not being strict with this kind of errors (to cope with what I think that it's a new behaviour from libapt)... I am just not sure if this change will bring other problems, let's see.
Note, just in case... relevant commits of apt seem to be: commit 1044354995513348f4836772fe77068585091d6b Author: David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> Date: Wed Aug 24 21:49:34 2016 +0200 improve code & doc for aquire weak/loop failing commit 2e2865ae53a65c00dd55a892d5b48458f3110366 Author: David Kalnischkies <da...@kalnischkies.de> Date: Wed Aug 24 09:47:48 2016 +0200 do fail on weakhash/loop earlier in acquire -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>