Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-5 Severity: normal Tags: patch /usr/bin/aptitude-changelog-parser has:
eval { require Dpkg::Changelog::Parse; Dpkg::Changelog::Parse->import(); 1; } or do { warn "warning: Dpkg::Changelog::Parse not present, install libdpkg-perl\n"; exit 0; }; But in case the second part is executed, aptitude displays nothing, and the user has the impression that it is still waiting for data. Changing the exit value to 1 makes aptitude display the old (cached?) logs. See attached patch. Note: there's still the issue that the warning disappears immediately (this is similar to bug 1042897). -- 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 6.4.20230625 cwidget version: 0.5.18 Apt version: 6.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc1f9ed000) libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 (0x00007fc184ae6000) libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0 (0x00007fc184200000) libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fc184aad000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fc184a78000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc184a6f000) libcwidget.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007fc18450e000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc184099000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 (0x00007fc184a55000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fc183e00000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc184a50000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc183a00000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc18442f000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc184a2a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc18381e000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc184a25000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc18407a000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc18441c000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc18404b000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fc183dda000) libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fc183d1a000) libudev.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fc183ce8000) libsystemd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007fc18373f000) libgcrypt.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007fc1835f9000) libxxhash.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007fc184036000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc184b17000) libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc183cde000) libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007fc183cd2000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007fc183caa000) -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') merged-usr: no Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /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 2.7.3 ii libboost-iostreams1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-22 ii libc6 2.37-6 ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-6 ii libgcc-s1 13.2.0-1 ii libncursesw6 6.4+20230625-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.42.0-1 ii libstdc++6 13.2.0-1 ii libtinfo6 6.4+20230625-2 ii libxapian30 1.4.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22 ii sensible-utils 0.0.20 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.53 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.13-5 pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.73 -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
--- a/aptitude-changelog-parser 2022-08-06 05:45:53.000000000 +0200 +++ b/aptitude-changelog-parser 2023-08-05 11:03:33.212301369 +0200 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ 1; } or do { warn "warning: Dpkg::Changelog::Parse not present, install libdpkg-perl\n"; - exit 0; + exit 1; }; # Usage: aptitude-changelog-parser [<filename> [<from-version>]]