Bug#753297: apt list --upgradable gives lot of false positives
at bottom :-
On 7/8/14, Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> wrote:
> 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
Dear Michael,
Thank you for the prompt follow-up. I'm happy to learn that probably
in the next release or so this would be fixed as per the git commit
you have shared.
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Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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