Bug#205980: apt-get doesn't acknowledge newer versions of anything
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.9
Severity: important
I haven't seen any package updates for a few days, and now I know why.
Here's an example with lprng, but the same happens with other packages,
including apt itself (before I manually upgraded it to 0.5.9). As you
can see, apt-cache reveals a new version available, but apt-get ignores
it. I'm baffled.
[fbriere] toroia:~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[fbriere] toroia:~ $ sudo apt-get install lprng
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
lprng is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[fbriere] toroia:~ $ apt-cache showpkg lprng
Package: lprng
Versions:
3.8.21-3(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp3.nrc.ca_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
3.8.21-2(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Reverse Depends:
pips820-3300,lprng
pips800,lprng
pips770,lprng
pips760,lprng
tkman,lprng
printtool,lprng
printop,lprng
printfilters-ppd,lprng
printbill,lprng
pdq,lprng
magicfilter,lprng
lprngtool,lprng
lprfax,lprng 3.6.12
lpr-ppd,lprng
harden-localflaws,lprng 3.8.20-4
foomatic-filters,lprng
cupsys-client,lprng
cupsys-bsd,lprng
Dependencies:
3.8.21-3 - debconf (0 (null)) libc6 (2 2.3.1-1) libcomerr-kth-compat (0 (null)) libcomerr2 (0 (null)) libkrb53 (2 1.2.99-1.3) libssl0.9.7 (0 (null)) magicfilter (0 (null)) lprng-doc (0 (null)) lpr (0 (null)) apsfilter (3 4.9.1-10) suidmanager (3 0.50) cupsys-bsd (0 (null)) lpr (0 (null))
3.8.21-2 - debconf (0 (null)) libc6 (2 2.3.1-1) libcomerr-kth-compat (0 (null)) libcomerr2 (0 (null)) libkrb53 (2 1.2.99-1.3) libssl0.9.7 (0 (null)) magicfilter (0 (null)) lprng-doc (0 (null)) lpr (0 (null)) apsfilter (3 4.9.1-10) suidmanager (3 0.50) cupsys-bsd (0 (null)) lpr (0 (null))
Provides:
3.8.21-3 - lpr
3.8.21-2 - lpr
Reverse Provides:
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# Main Debian packages
deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp3.nrc.ca/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mirror.direct.ca/pub/linux/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Home-made packages
deb http://www.hyrule.dyndns.org/debian/dists/unstable ./
deb-src http://www.hyrule.dyndns.org/debian/dists/unstable ./
# Local packages
deb http://www.hyrule.dyndns.org/debian/dists/local ./
# XFree86 4.3
deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/$(ARCH) ./
deb-src http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source ./
#deb http://capricorn.woot.net/~daniels/current/sid/$(ARCH) ./
#deb-src http://capricorn.woot.net/~daniels/current/sid/source ./
# Mplayer + codecs
deb http://marillat.free.fr unstable main
deb-src http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian/ unstable main
# Quakeforge
#deb http://www.quakeforge.net/packages/debian unstable contrib non-free
# Java
#deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ unstable main non-free
deb http://kambing.vlsm.org/DLL/debian-java/ sid main non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux toroia 2.4.21 #4 Mon Jun 23 21:39:45 EDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.1-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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