Thanks for your bugreport.
This is not a bug in apt, the way apt works is that it will try to
reinstall a package from the archive if the meta-data of the archive is
different than the meta-data on the local install (the assumption is
that the local install got corrupted). The problem is (or used
Yes, I meant Pre-Depends
So maybe it is fixed for newly built packages. That would be good news.
I'll try by re-uploading some of my packages.
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apt reinstalls same package from '~ppa1' again and again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152317
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Hi Cedric,
I think I found what's happening :
I compared various /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa*_Packages
entries.
All the packages that keep reinstalling have a Pre-Depend field in the status
file but not in the Packages file.
Manually adding it in the Packages does the
** Tags added: qa-hardy-desktop
** Tags removed: qa-hardy-list
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apt reinstalls same package from '~ppa1' again and again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152317
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I think I found what's happening :
I compared various /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa*_Packages
entries.
All the packages that keep reinstalling have a Pre-Depend field in the status
file but not in the Packages file.
Manually adding it in the Packages does the trick.
It seems
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Tags added: qa-hardy-list
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apt reinstalls same package from '~ppa1' again and again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152317
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A workaround is to edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and bump the installed version
number. For instance for vmware-player, I edited to:
Version: 1:2.0.2-1~ppa5.0.1
Cedric, just move to something higher than that next version, please ;-)
And thanks a lot for the packaging.
Still it would be nice to
** Summary changed:
- apt reinstalls same bash from '~ppa1' (because it's essential?)
+ apt reinstalls same package from '~ppa1' again and again
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apt reinstalls same package from '~ppa1' again and again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152317
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** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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apt reinstalls same package from '~ppa1' again and again
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152317
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