Bug#578514: apt: fails to upgrade a single package without explicit version specification
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.25.3
Severity: normal
Hi,
upgrading the package git-svn fails without error message:
# apt-get install git-svn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
git-svn is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 420 not upgraded.
The message "git-svn is already the newest version" is wrong as
1:1.7.0.4-1 is installed but -2 exists:
# apt-get install git-svn=1:1.7.0.4-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
colordiff
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
git git-svn
Suggested packages:
git-doc git-arch git-cvs git-daemon-run gitweb
The following packages will be REMOVED:
git-core git-email git-gui gitk stgit stgit-contrib
The following NEW packages will be installed:
git
The following packages will be upgraded:
git-svn
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 6 to remove and 420 not upgraded.
Need to get 5945kB of archives.
After this operation, 5120kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
Jens
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "none";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*";
APT::Periodic "";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
APT::Update "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:::: "touch /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp 2>/dev/null || true";
APT::Archives "";
APT::Archives::MaxAge "30";
APT::Archives::MinAge "2";
APT::Archives::MaxSize "500";
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::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::netrc "auth.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Media "";
Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/apt";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
Unattended-Upgrade "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "Debian stable";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "test -f /var/run/junior-config.usermenu && if [ -x /usr/sbin/blend-update-usermenus ] ; then /usr/sbin/blend-update-usermenus junior ; fi ; rm -f /var/run/junior-config.usermenu";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -d /var/lib/update-notifier ]; then touch /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp; fi";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 800
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.7 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.6.1.5-3 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.94.2 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.63.1 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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