Bug#478970: Bug#479870: aptitude should update dpkg available information on updates

2012-04-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:51:58PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: The naïve implementation is something like: APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success { [ ! -x /usr/sbin/sync-available ] || /usr/sbin/sync-available; }; in apt.conf.d. However, some interactive package managers (e.g. aptitude,

Bug#478970: Bug#479870: aptitude should update dpkg available information on updates

2012-04-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
retitle 479870 apt updates should update dpkg/available reassign 479870 apt,dctrl-tools thanks /var/lib/dpkg/available is not created|updated complete with 'aptitude update', like 'dselect update' does. If anything, all apt interfaces should do this and dctrl-tools provides the means.