Bug#167899: apt-get tries to update already up2date packages
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
apt-get tries to update packages which are already up2date.
dunno why this happens :(
> apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
libqt3 libqt3-dev libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqxt0 qt3-tools
6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/13.8MB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> dpkg -p libqt3
Package: libqt3
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 6218
Maintainer: Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@madkiss.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: qt-x11-free
Version: 2:3.0.5-4
Replaces: libqt3-gl, qt3-tools (<< 2:3.0.2-20020306-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libjpeg62, libmng1 (>= 1.0.3-1), libpng3,
libqt3-mt (>= 2:3.0.5-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810),
xlibmesa3 | libgl1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: libqt3-psql, libqt3-mysql, libqt3-odbc, anti-aliasing-howto
Conflicts: libqt3-gl
Filename: pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/libqt3_3.0.0.0-6_i386.deb
Size: 2475346
MD5sum: 3d0fe182c4996a5476d7fe5109c4e642
dpkg -s libqt3
Package: libqt3
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 6218
Maintainer: Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@madkiss.org>
Source: qt-x11-free
Version: 2:3.0.5-4
Replaces: libqt3-gl, qt3-tools (<< 2:3.0.2-20020306-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libjpeg62, libmng1 (>= 1.0.3-1), libpng3,
libqt3-mt (>= 2:3.0.5-4), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810),
xlibmesa3 | libgl1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: libqt3-psql, libqt3-mysql, libqt3-odbc, anti-aliasing-howto
Conflicts: libqt3-gl
> dpkg -s apt
Package: apt
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: base
Installed-Size: 1984
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Version: 0.5.4
Replaces: libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7)
Provides: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
Suggests: dpkg-dev
No idea what the problem could be :(
tried to delete the availables, updated afterwards... nothing helps.
Can set the packages to hold to prevent this effect. But I don't think that
this is a real solution for the problem :(
My system
up2date testing, kernel 2.4.19
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