Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When running aptitude 0.8.13-5 as a non-root user, if an installed package is marked for upgrade to a version from experimental, aptitude forgets about the action after becoming root. To reproduce, starting from a fresh installation of Debian testing, as root: echo 'deb https://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main' >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-experimental.list apt update apt install aptitude Then as a non-root user: 1. Run aptitude. 2. Mark an installed package for upgrade to the version from experimental. (e.g. upgrade mawk 1.3.4.20200120-3.1 to 1.3.4.20230203-1~exp1) 3. Press g to start an install run. 4. Become root when prompted. Observe that after becoming root, the package upgrade is no longer pending and the following message appears: > No packages are scheduled to be installed, removed or upgraded. Instead, the upgrade action should still be pending so it can be completed as root. Thanks, Kevin Note: This issue appears similar to https://bugs.debian.org/398956 where purge actions are forgotten after becoming root. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.13 Compiler: g++ 12.1.0 Compiled against: apt version 6.0.0 NCurses version 6.3 libsigc++ version: 2.10.8 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.4.20221231 cwidget version: 0.5.18 Apt version: 6.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff085eb000) libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0 (0x00007fbf327df000) libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fbf327a5000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fbf32773000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fbf32e2f000) libcwidget.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007fbf32681000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fbf32522000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 (0x00007fbf3250a000) libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fbf32200000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fbf32e28000) libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fbf31e00000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fbf32121000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fbf324ea000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fbf31c1f000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fbf324cb000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fbf324b8000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fbf32489000) liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fbf32463000) libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fbf32065000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fbf32436000) libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007fbf31b50000) libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007fbf31a09000) libxxhash.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007fbf32050000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fbf32e3a000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fbf32046000) libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007fbf3203a000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007fbf319e1000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-rc3-dirty (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.13-5 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.6.0 ii libboost-iostreams1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-20 ii libc6 2.36-8 ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-6 ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14 ii libncursesw6 6.4-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.40.1-2 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii libtinfo6 6.4-2 ii libxapian30 1.4.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.21 ii sensible-utils 0.0.17+nmu1 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.13-5 pn debtags <none> pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information
