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Bug#717006: apt-listbugs prevents apt purge



On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:35:52 +0200 David Kalnischkies wrote:

> Hello,

Hi David, nice to read you!

> 
> thanks for the report (and reassigning) !

You're welcome!
BTW, thanks to you for implementing version 3 of the hook info protocol!

> 
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Francesco Poli
> <invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote:
> > Indeed there seems to be a regression in the hook info (version 2)
> > provided by libapt-pkg.
> > With apt/0.9.9.1 and libapt-pkg4.12/0.9.9.1 the relevant
> > Pre-Install-Pkgs hook info is:
> >
> >   VERSION 2
> >
> >   python3.2 > - **REMOVE**
> >
> > The python3.2 remove line only has 4 fields, while five are expected.
> 
> Regardless of how hard you try, there is always at least one case
> remaining which isn't covered by your testcase and includes the bug
> you hoped to prevent by writing a testcase in the first place …

Agreed, fully!   :-)

Who said "There is always one more bug" ?
The sentence could be paraphrased as
"There is always one more corner case"!  ;-)

> (see the attached patch "else if" you want to have a laugh)

Eh!   ;-)

Thanks for devising a fix so quickly!
Looking forward to seeing the bug fixed in sid.

Bye.


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