Bug#279560: bug of apt #279560: Correcting the lack of information
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.27
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #279560
** After doing:
$apt-get update
$apt-get upgrade
** I get this information (retrieved by apt-get) in my prompt:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
(...)
The following packages will be upgraded:
(...)
520 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/346MB of archives.
After unpacking 15.8MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
** vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
version a has bad syntax: version string has embedded spaces
** ^^^^^^^ this line should'nt be here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Retrieving bug reports... Done
critical bugs of (...)
Summary:
wv(1 bug), groff(1 bug), libgtk2.0-0(1 bug), ssh(1 bug), libkrb53(1 bug),
cvs(1 bug), util-linux(1 bug), login(1 bug), samba(2 bugs), gzip(2 bugs),
libc6(1 bug), iptables(2 bugs), portmap(1 bug), less(1 bug), gawk(4 bugs),
tetex-bin(1 bug), libtiff3g(1 bug), exim(1 bug), initrd-tools(2 bugs),
libxosd-dev(1 bug), libsasl7(1 bug), libldap2(1 bug), coreutils(1 bug),
mount(1 bug), mc(1 bug), ppp(1 bug), gcc-3.3(1 bug), console-data(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
** In this moment I pine all the desired packages and get this:
The following 29 packages will be pinned or on hold:
mc, coreutils, libsasl7, cvs, iptables, util-linux, mount, libxosd-dev,
ltrace, console-data, groff, ppp, initrd-tools, exim, libldap2, libc6,
gcc-3.3, libtiff3g, gawk, less, gzip, samba, ssh, libgtk2.0-0,
tetex-bin, portmap, login, libkrb53, wv
Are you sure [Y/n]? y
mc coreutils libsasl7 cvs iptables util-linux mount libxosd-dev ltrace
console-data groff ppp initrd-tools exim libldap2 libc6 gcc-3.3
libtiff3g gawk less gzip samba ssh libgtk2.0-0 tetex-bin portmap login
libkrb53 wv pinned by adding Pin preferences in /etc/apt/preferences.
You need to restart apt to enable
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages?[N/?/...]
** As all of us knows, in this moment we need to restart apt to enable,
** but, I'll get exactly the same message from apt
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "if dpkg -s apt-listbugs | grep -q '^Status: .* ok installed'; then /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || ( test $? -ne 10 || exit 10; echo 'Warning: apt-listbugs exited abnormally, hit enter key to continue.' 1>&2 ; read a < /dev/tty ); fi";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
##############################################################################
# debian sid
##############################################################################
deb http://ftp.linux.pt/pub/mirrors/debian testing contrib main non-free
deb-src http://ftp.linux.pt/pub/mirrors/debian testing contrib main non-free
deb http://ftp.linux.pt/pub/mirrors/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.linux.pt/pub/mirrors/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing contrib main non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing contrib main non-free
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
##############################################################################
# blackdown java
##############################################################################
#deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/java-linux/debian unstable main non-free
#deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian testing main non-free
##############################################################################
# mplayer
##############################################################################
#deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
##############################################################################
# opera
##############################################################################
#deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ testing non-free
##############################################################################
# debian security updates
##############################################################################
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
##############################################################################
# lmule
##############################################################################
#deb http://p1107.dslnas-01.cybertron.at/debian/ unstable main non-free
#deb http://www.imoqland.com/debs/skyhusker/woody/ ./
#deb http://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/debian/ testing main
##############################################################################
# ftp http
#
# ftp.uevora.pt /debian/ /debian/
# ftp.eq.uc.pt /pub/software/Linux/debian/ /software/Linux/debian/
# debian.ua.pt /debian/ /debian/
# ftp.cprm.net /debian/ /debian/
# ftp.linux.pt /pub/mirrors/debian/ /pub/mirrors/debian/
##############################################################################
#deb ftp://ftp.eq.uc.pt/pub/software/Linux/debian/ testing contrib main non-free
#deb ftp://debian.ua.pt/debian/ testing contrib main non-free
#deb ftp://ftp.cprm.net/debian/ testing contrib main non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0 testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-4sarge1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-6sarge1.2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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