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Bug#265641: marked as done (apt: uninstalled, pinned packages hide packages from available list)

Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:55:33 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#265641: apt: uninstalled, pinned packages hide packages from available list
has caused the Debian Bug report #265641,
regarding apt: uninstalled, pinned packages hide packages from available list
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.27
Severity: normal


If you have packages pinned in /etc/apt/preferences, and those packages
are not installed, then apt-cache will silently remove that package from
its list of available packages (as in the 'apt-cache dumpavail' option),
and apt-get install will declare that the package is not available.  Yet
frustratingly enough, 'apt-cache show' will display the package
information and 'apt-get source' will work happily.  

I understand this is probably correct behavior, but in my case these
entries were added to /etc/apt/preferences by apt-listbugs long ago, so
it was entirely non-obvious as to why it was not working.

Example from /etc/apt/preferences:

Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Fri Jan 30 02:08:57 PST 2004
Package: wine
Pin: version 0.0.20030813-2
Pin-Priority: 1000



-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.4.1-5    GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.4-7    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information

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Hi,

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:16:08PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:15:35AM -0700, Joshua Neal wrote:
> > If you have packages pinned in /etc/apt/preferences, and those packages
> > are not installed, then apt-cache will silently remove that package from
> > its list of available packages (as in the 'apt-cache dumpavail' option),
> > and apt-get install will declare that the package is not available.  Yet
> > frustratingly enough, 'apt-cache show' will display the package
> > information and 'apt-get source' will work happily.  
> > 
> > I understand this is probably correct behavior, but in my case these
> > entries were added to /etc/apt/preferences by apt-listbugs long ago, so
> > it was entirely non-obvious as to why it was not working.
> > 
> > Example from /etc/apt/preferences:
> > 
> > Explanation: Pinned by apt-listbugs at Fri Jan 30 02:08:57 PST 2004
> > Package: wine
> > Pin: version 0.0.20030813-2
> > Pin-Priority: 1000
> 
> That does not sound like correct behaviour.  Please send a transcript
> demonstrating exactly what you mean, so that I can try to reproduce the bug.

No reproducibility in 11 years doesn't make me expect it to be suddently
possible in the near future, hence closing as not actionable.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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