Control: tag -1 - moreinfo unreproducible + confirmed Hi Matus,
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 09.07.19 18:05, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I assume you did not exit aptitude inbetween, right > > I did. What I did was: Ok, exiting aptitude inbetween is what I usually do, too. > 2. change sources.list to point to buster archive. > > # rm sources.list; ln -s sources.list.buster sources.list I don't think that using a symlink instead of editing the file makes a difference. > 3. run aptitude, see only installed packages marked as obsolete: > > --- Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (3978) [...] > 4. run 'u'pdate packages list, see no old packages, but all uninstalled as > new: Gotcha! Doing this in two instead of one step is is the relevant difference and cause for this issue. I usually use "aptitude -u" instead here, which updates the package lists before calculating any view and then there's no problem either. (Also speeds things up as the view needs to be built only once. :-) So as soon as you generate a new view with all packages obsolete, it's clear that afterwards, all other packages are new. I suspect that this is caused by some subtle change in how libapt sees its cache if the sources.list has been modified after the last package list update". 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