Bug#245253: apt-get: claims it will upgrade a packages that should/will not be
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.24
Severity: normal
I'm using both wesnoth.org and unstable as a source for the wesnoth{,-data}
packages for my testing box. The box is configured such that unstable
packages are only ever installed or upgraded on explicit request. The
wesnoth.org line is a recent addition that does not completely fit in this
original policy, and that seems to be the source of this problem.
I've upgraded the packages to the w.o version yesterday, and then the same
version entered unstable. Now apt-get and aptitude both claim they mush
upgrade the wesnoth-data package to the same version than that installed,
although it does not seem apt-get will really do it:
# apt-cache policy wesnoth-data
wesnoth-data:
Installed: 0.7.3-1
Candidate: 0.7.3-1
Version Table:
0.7.3-1 0
90 http://aptproxy unstable/main Packages
0.7.3-1 0
500 http://debian.wesnoth.org ./ Packages
*** 0.7.3-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.7-1 0
990 ftp://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
# apt-get --print-uris -y upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
enigma
The following packages will be upgraded:
debootstrap gav ifupdown latex-xcolor pgf ppp ufoai-data-lanas wesnoth-data
8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 3819kB/23.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 28.7kB of additional disk space will be used.
'http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/debian/ufoai/ufoai-data-lanas_0.0.040420-0.1_all.deb' ufoai-data-lanas_0.0.040420-0.1_all.deb 2182902 805b631e239d0ec8b22869b7050ca761
'ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/ifupdown/ifupdown_0.6.4-4.8_i386.deb' ifupdown_0.6.4-4.8_i386.deb 42338 ca297e5224c6ec4714047dc406f6181c
'ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/latex-xcolor/latex-xcolor_1.10-1_all.deb' latex-xcolor_1.10-1_all.deb 789152 5e80c5aaba412407e4b0d0b3b907ab38
'ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pgf/pgf_0.61-1_all.deb' pgf_0.61-1_all.deb 358356 788771b87a3f1dce75eaa5e4243b13f3
'ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.2+20040202-3_i386.deb' ppp_2.4.2+20040202-3_i386.deb 283170 0426645173ab5bc0004f9b2529703725
'ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.2.33_i386.deb' debootstrap_0.2.33_i386.deb 61634 43dfa7d1b4cca49c01493a0b73728766
'ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gav/gav_0.8.0-1_i386.deb' gav_0.8.0-1_i386.deb 101166 6fafb63ccb89eac768e9010ec4720c84
As you see, wesnoth-data is not in the URIs, although it's listed in the
"will be upgraded". Now I cannot understand why the wesnoth package is not
given the same handling...
If I remove the w.o line or the unstable one from my sources.list that
behaviour goes away. It comes back when I re-add those 2 lines.
-- Package-specific info:
[information manually extracted from the correct machine]
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Get "";
APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
APT::Get::List-Cleanup "false";
APT::Cache-Limit "10000000";
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/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Explanation: default release
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 990
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 90
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 90
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
deb http://aptproxy:9999/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://aptproxy:9999/non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
deb file:/export/work/admin/radeon/X/debs ./
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/debian/ ufoai/
deb http://debian.wesnoth.org/sid/ ./
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
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