Bug#753297: apt list --upgradable gives lot of false positives

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:27:01PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.0.5
> Severity: normal

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
[..]
> apt list --upgradable gives lot of false positives. I did a run of
> index update and it said :-
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 25 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
> 
> But running the command itself gave lot of false positives.
[..]
> $ apt list --upgradable
> Listing... Done
> advancecomp/testing,now 1.16-1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 1.16-1]
> aegisub/testing,now 3.0.4-2+b1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 3.0.4-2+b1]
> alsa-base/testing,now 1.0.25+3 all [installed,upgradable to: 1.0.25+3]
> anacron/testing,now 2.3-20 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 2.3-20]
> autoconf/testing,now 2.69-6 all [installed,upgradable to: 2.69-6]
> 
> It is possible that it might be some configuration issue at my end,
> but still it would be nice if somebody can clarify.
[..]

I wasn't able to directly reproduce this, but I think the following
commit fixes the false positives:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d1b93d94083a3856efc821bacd9e91f80bbf760 

Cheers,
 Michael