Bug#309357: [Release Notes] Use Woody's or Sarge's aptitude for upgrades?
tags 309357 confirmed
severity 309357 important
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 12:50:19PM -0500, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:58:26PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > This is bug #309357, though I cannot reproduce the problem with my
> > > setup (with neither aptitude 0.2.11.1-3 nor 0.2.11.1-4).
> >
> > I just downgraded to aptitude 0.2.11.1-4 and apt 0.5.4 (on the upgraded
> > sarge system) and can reproduce this bug. If I change the lines back to
> > woody in sources.list aptitude update fails while apt-get update succeeds.
> >
> > aptitude 0.2.15.9-2 and apt 0.5.28.6 from sarge don't have this bug.
>
> I really cannot reproduce it. Could you send me a log or detailed
> summary of what happened ?
OK, by sheer luck I found how to reproduce it:
1) Start with plain woody
2) Install at least one package using aptitude.
aptitude install sl
3) Move source.lists to sarge
4) aptitude update will fail:
# aptitude update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.fr.debian.org sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.fr.debian.org sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files
Though `apt-get update' work.
The release notes must take that bug into account.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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