Package: apt Version: 1.0.9.8.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I happened to notice that history.log does not include package epochs when reporting installs etc al. I don't care about that, but apt-get does. Context: I'm getting a log of Hash Sum type breakage, and because of this, was accidentally upgraded to a lot of jessie-backports packages I didn't want to be upgraded to. I discovered the thing about epochs, when trying to use history to roll back to stable. When I fed apt-get the output of history.log, it complained about the package numbers, and it was clear the epochs were the problem. And indeed, when I added the epochs, it stopped complaining. Regards, Faheem Mitha -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-headers-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-headers-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-extra-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-extra-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-signed-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-signed-image-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-headers-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-headers-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-modules-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-modules-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-kernel-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-kernel-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-backports-modules-.*-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-tools-3\.16\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-tools-3\.2\.0-4-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^postgresql-"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages ""; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-headers"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-image-extra"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-signed-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "kfreebsd-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "kfreebsd-headers"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "gnumach-image"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-modules"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-kernel"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-backports-modules-.*"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-tools"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ""; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs"; APT::Update ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:: "test -x /usr/bin/apt-show-versions || exit 0 ; apt-show-versions -i"; APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:: "[ ! -f /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ] || /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt org.debian.apt.CacheChanged || true"; APT::Update::Post-Invoke ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "[ ! -x /usr/bin/debtags ] || debtags update || true"; APT::Periodic ""; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; APT::Get ""; APT::Get::Build-Dep-Automatic "true"; APT::Architectures ""; APT::Architectures:: "amd64"; APT::Architectures:: "i386"; APT::Compressor ""; APT::Compressor::. 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Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.6.11-1+b1 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.26 ii python-apt 0.9.3.12 ii synaptic 0.81.2 ii wajig 2.17 -- no debconf information