Bug#716757: libapt-pkg4.12: Something is wrong with apt-get/aptitude update

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hello Marc,

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Marc Matzen <marcmatzen@gmx.de> wrote:
> The command apt-get/aptitude update doesn’t fetch the list of available
> packeges anymore after updating to libapt-pkg4.12 (version 0.9.9.1). With
> version 0.9.8.2 everthing works fine.

You have to be a tiny winy bit more specific than that, I am afraid.

We have testcases which run fine here and most of them do 'apt-get update's
and usually in a lot of different ways. Testing it by hand, I can update
without any files present locally, with some older files (which are patched
 with pdiff) and with up-to-date files (which indeed downloads nothing,
 as nothing has changed).

So could you include your configuration ("apt-config dump" output), your
sources.list(.d) entries and the exact output you get from "apt-get update"
please? So far this is unreproducible and I have no idea what could be wrong.

(Most of that would have been asked by the bugscript for "apt", really need
 to work on this so that reporters for other packages are "bugged" too)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies