Bug#574072: apt-get upgrade re-upgrades same packages over and over (to same already installed version)

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Thanks for trying! :)

2010/3/18 Sten Heinze <sten.heinze@gmx.de>:
> I am unsure by what this is triggered, since I had it twice since starting to
> use my patched apt-version. How can I find the cause? The apt-version in
> experimental does not have the patch [0] yet, correct?
No, experimental doesn't have the patch (by now), but isn't installable
currently without loosing many reverse dependencies of apt.


I guess i have found the issue,
(silly me to overlook this situation in the first place) :
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~donkult/apt/sid/revision/1964


Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,


David Kalnischkies

P.S.: Debugging in general can be done with various tools e.g. gdb -
but it depends mostly on the specific issue you want to debug.