Re: apt{-cache,-get,itude} show wrong version of package after update
On 2018-04-06, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Certainly I have no proof except my experience
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you've shared any.
I've found something ambivalently concrete.
Note
Since apt / apt-get and aptitude share auto-installed package status
(see Section 2.5.5, “The package state for APT”) after lenny, you can
mix these tools without major troubles (see Bug #594490).
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations
Not *that* reassuring. Who wants *minor* troubles, anyway? I look at them
binarily; you can't be a little bit pregnant.
>> and my (patchy) memory
>> that I have seen discussion of this point on this list before.
>>
>> Anyway the actual issue in this case turned out to be nothing to do with
>> mixing and matching front-ends to dpkg. Glad the OP got his problem
>> figured out.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
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