Re: aptitude upgrade vs. apt-get upgrade

[Jens Schüßler <jgs@trash.net>]

* Thomas Hungenberg <th+lists-debian@demonium.de> wrote:
> Piotr Drozdek wrote:
> > Show me results of
> > apt-cache policy tex-common
> 
> tex-common:
>   Installed: 2.08
>   Candidate: 2.08.1
>   Version table:
>      2.08.1 0
>         500 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
>  *** 2.08 0
>         500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> 
> > dpkg --get-selections |grep tex-common
> 
> tex-common                                      install
  
,----
| Installed: 2.08.1
|   Candidate: 2.08.1
|   Version table:
|  *** 2.08.1 0
|         900 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main i386 Packages
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Hm, I don't know what your problem is, but all I can say is that my
aptitude, which I only use, never apt-get, fetched this tex upgrade a
week ago from security.debian.org.

,----
| Aptitude 0.6.3: log report
| Mi, Mär 23 2011 11:19:51 +0100
| 
| IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail due
| to
| dpkg problems may not be completed.
| 
| Will install 1 packages, and remove 0 packages.
| ===============================================================================
| [UPGRADE] tex-common 2.08 -> 2.08.1
| ===============================================================================
| 
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Jens