Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.7-1 Followup-For: Bug #816781 Since some times I'm hitting the following bug and today I've found the time to report it to Debian. Even if it's a different use case, I think it's closely related to this bug, so i'm posting here.
Steps to reproduce (always reproducible for me): - Open the TUI; - Press [u] to search for updates; - Review the upgradable package list and press [U] to mark them as upgradable; - Decide to postpone the real upgrade and exit from aptitude; - Re-enter the TUI but for some reason you want aptitude forget all pending actions by pressing the corresponding menu entry; - Observe that aptitude make some work but doesn't actually forget nothing. Note that the same command works as expected if it's given during the same session, without exit. If I understand correctly, Manuel suggests to use the following steps to obtain the same practical effect as cancel pending actions: - With the cursor go on the "Upgradable Packages" tree root. - Package -> Keep Is that correct? But in that case i haven't understood now what the "Cancel pending actions" command is for. Cesare. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.7 Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170406 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.1 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.1 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc688a4000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f35fc6a2000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f35fc472000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f35fc248000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f35fc041000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f35fbd44000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f35fba3a000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f35fb822000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f35fb609000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f35fb405000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f35faff1000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f35fadd4000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f35faa50000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f35fa74c000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f35fa535000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f35fa197000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f35f9f93000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f35f9d7c000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f35f9b60000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f35f9950000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f35f972a000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f35f9518000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f35f9310000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f35f9109000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055db3ead2000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.7-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.4 ii libboost-filesystem1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-3 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.3-2 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.39 -- no debconf information