Bug#753297: some more findings.
Hi all,
It seems difficult to know if the changes which were made had any
difference or not.
For instance if you look when I had reported the bug few packages had
shown up therein (On 30th June 2014) :-
anacron/testing,now 2.3-20 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.3-20]
autoconf/testing,now 2.69-6 all [installed,upgradable to: 2.69-6]
This is from 30th June 2014.
>From the list of today those packages are not present.
BUT, probably both these packages had a different version in testing
and sid/unstable on that date.
anacron for instance was released to unstable/sid on 21st June and
urgency=low as the priority so it definitely came to testing on 31st
June at the earliest .
autoconf too was released to unstable/sid on 29th June 2014 and has
urgency=low as priority, so it would have come to testing on 7th July
(if my calculations are right).
On top of it the mirror I use http://debian.ec.as6453.net/ is usually
12-24 hrs. behind the main mirrors ( a strategic decision at my end.)
I usually take a look at #debian-next before doing upgrades to see if
something seriously is broken (as in X.org or something which would
not let me boot or show screen or something.)
So, apparently what apt list --upgradable is doing is seeing if some
package has an upgrade and doesn't take into account the preferences
listed in /etc/apt/preferences.
$ apt-show-versions -a acpid
acpid:amd64 1:2.0.22-2 install ok installed
acpid:amd64 1:2.0.22-2 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
acpid:amd64 1:2.0.22-3 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net
No experimental version
acpid:amd64/jessie 1:2.0.22-2 uptodate
$ apt-show-versions -a adequate
adequate:all 0.11.6 install ok installed
adequate:all 0.11.6 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
adequate:all 0.12 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net
No experimental version
adequate:all/jessie 0.11.6 uptodate
my /etc/apt/preferences has testing as a priority while both sid and
experimental have value of 1.
Lastly both anacron and autoconf has no upgrades either in sid or
experimental hence they are not showing up.
$ apt-show-versions -a autoconf
autoconf:all 2.69-7 install ok installed
autoconf:all 2.69-7 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
autoconf:all 2.69-7 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net
No experimental version
autoconf:all/jessie 2.69-7 uptodate
$ apt-show-versions -a anacron
anacron:amd64 2.3-21 install ok installed
anacron:amd64 2.3-21 jessie debian.ec.as6453.net
No testing-updates version
anacron:amd64 2.3-21 unstable debian.ec.as6453.net
No experimental version
anacron:amd64/jessie 2.3-21 uptodate
Hope this gives bit more info.
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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