Bug#762743: apt: apt-get update race(?)/issue leading to unexpected upgrades
Control: found -1 0.8.10.3+squeeze7
Hi,
Peter Palfrader wrote on Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:58:33 +0200:
> Version: 0.9.7.9+deb7u5
[...]
> I noticed (a couple times now) that apt-get sometimes ends up trying to
> upgrade all my stable packages to their wheezy-backports versions on
> debian.org systems.
I only remember that I run into this once last year or so (can't tell
exactly when) on Unstable, where it tried to upgrade all packages to
Experimental and Aptitude listed thousands of packages as "Obsolete or
locally installed".
But a friend of mine ran into this recently on Squeeze LTS in a very
misleading way:
* Squeeze lists were there
* Squeeze-LTS lists were missing
* Squeeze-Backports lists were there.
This caused upgrades to Squeeze-Backports only for those packages
which already had updates from Squeeze-LTS installed and were
available in Squeeze-Backports too. It made him unfortunately
believe[1], that our LTS release switched Dovecot from 1.2 to 2.0 as
it seemed the only change caused by this bug on his system. :-(
[1] http://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/?url=archives/3505-Migration-abgeschlossen-....html#c19512
(German)
P.S.: I wonder if this is related to https://bugs.debian.org/337157 --
if so, that bug hasn't been fixed in APT 0.7.16 as guessed by Eugene
in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337157#15
Regards, Axel
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