Re: [rosea.grammostola@gmail.com: Re: [Aptitude-devel] [aptitude-gtk] errors]
2009/1/18 Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>:
> Hi there. The message below is from a debugging thread with the new
> aptitude. There was a place where we weren't guarding against invalid
> iterators.
>
> What I'm wondering about is this: why doesn't he have a candidate
> version for libjack0? He's running a testing system and has two
> perfectly good available versions, including the installed version.
> Shouldn't apt at least pick the installed version as the candidate?
He seems to have a wrong pin in /etc/apt/preferences (to an release
which does not exist).
Most probably he wrote lenny instead of testing or sid instead of unstable.
An example would be
Package: libjack0
Pin: release x
Pin-Priority: 1000
In my opinion, apt should treat pins to non-existing releases as errors.
[...]
> ----- Forwarded message from Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com> -----
[...]
> $ apt-cache policy libjack0
> libjack0:
> Installed: 0.116.1-3
> Candidate: (none)
> Package pin: (not found)
> Version table:
> *** 0.116.1-3 1000
> 500 ftp://ftp.debian.nl unstable/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 0.109.2-5 1000
> 990 ftp://ftp.debian.nl testing/main Packages
[...]
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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