Control: tag -1 + moreinfo unreproducible Hi Matus,
thanks for the bug report. Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I am trying to look which packages are new in buster that were not in > stretch. I am using aptitude since it't great tool for browsing packages. > > until now it was easy: > > do 'f'orget new packages in aptitude > change sources.list to point to new release > do 'u'pdate packages list I assume you did not exit aptitude inbetween, right > but now, when I do this, aptitude seems to forget all info about packages > previously available. So every package is listed under "New Packages"? I can't reproduce this. I just did the following inside an uptodate Stretch pbuilder chroot: * Start "aptitude" It shows this view: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actions Undo Package Resolver Search Options Views Help C-T: Menu ?: Help q: Quit u: Update g: Preview/Download/Install/Remove Pkgs aptitude 0.8.7 @ c6 --- Installed Packages (128) --- Not Installed Packages (50663) --- Virtual Packages (5897) These packages are currently installed on your computer. ▒ ▒ This group contains 128 packages. ▒ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Press Ctrl-Z * Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change any occurrence of "stretch" to "buster". * Called "fg" to get aptitude into the foreground again. * Pressed "u" in aptitude's TUI. Now aptitude shows me this view: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actions Undo Package Resolver Search Options Views Help C-T: Menu ?: Help q: Quit u: Update g: Preview/Download/Install/Remove Pkgs aptitude 0.8.7 @ c6 --- Upgradable Packages (111) --- New Packages (13184) --- Installed Packages (2) --- Not Installed Packages (43508) --- Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (15) --- Virtual Packages (14460) A newer version of these packages is available. ▒ ▒ This group contains 111 packages. ▒ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Which is more or less what I would expect: * 13184 new binary packages (You should get the same number on amd64 unless you also have contrib/non-free or third-party repos enabled.) * 111 of the 128 installed packages of the minimal chroot are updatable. * 2 are unchanged between stretch and buster. * 15 are no more in buster. Maybe you can post even more verbose steps how to reproduce this. Otherwise I have no idea what could be different with your setup to cause such a different behaviour. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE