Bug#878969: apt, apt-get talks about packages which it shouldn't in the first place

To: debian-bts <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#878969: apt, apt-get talks about packages which it shouldn't in the first place
From: shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:18:26 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] CADdDZR==qUBNcACEWcBfmF_jFVtxq_RzD6V8gdbU3b1P3W=xkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>, 878969@bugs.debian.org
Package: apt
Version: 1.5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

apt and apt-get talk of 2 packages -

└─[$] sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y

[sudo] password for shirish:
Resolving dependencies...
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2017.06.02' r=-1
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
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I then went to apt-get to see what packages were the problematic ones -

[$] sudo apt-get upgrade

                                    Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  dpkg-dbgsym dselect-dbgsym
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Then I did an apt-cache policy of the packages in question -

[$] apt-cache policy dpkg dpkg-dbgsym dselect dselect-dbgsym

dpkg:
  Installed: 1.18.24
  Candidate: 1.18.24
  Version table:
     1.19.0.1 1
          1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.18.24 600
        600 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dpkg-dbgsym:
  Installed: 1.18.24
  Candidate: 1.19.0.1
  Version table:
     1.19.0.1 500
        500 http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug
unstable-debug/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.18.24 500
        500 http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug
buster-debug/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dselect:
  Installed: 1.18.24
  Candidate: 1.18.24
  Version table:
     1.19.0.1 1
          1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.18.24 600
        600 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dselect-dbgsym:
  Installed: 1.18.24
  Candidate: 1.19.0.1
  Version table:
     1.19.0.1 500
        500 http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug
unstable-debug/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.18.24 500
        500 http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug
buster-debug/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


I was confused as to why it was talking of these two packages were
being kept back when all showed up to be good. I decided to purge the
-dbgsym packages in the hope that something might have been missed by
me.

[$] sudo aptitude purge dpkg-dbgsym dselect-dbgsym -y
                                                            [12:21:48]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dpkg-dbgsym{p} dselect-dbgsym{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 1,831 kB will be freed.
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: process queue pkg dpkg-dbgsym:amd64 queue.len 1 progress 1, try 1
D000001: deferred_remove package dpkg-dbgsym:amd64
D000001: checking dependencies for remove 'dpkg-dbgsym:amd64'
(Reading database ... 1337737 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing dpkg-dbgsym (1.18.24) ...
D000001: removal_bulk package dpkg-dbgsym:amd64
D000001: removal_bulk cleaning info directory
D000001: removal_bulk purging? foundpostrm=0
D000001: removal_bulk no postrm, no conffiles, purging
D000001: removal_bulk purge done, removing list
'/var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg-dbgsym.list'
D000001: removal_bulk purge done, removing postrm
'/var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg-dbgsym.postrm'
D000001: removal done
D000001: process queue pkg dselect-dbgsym:amd64 queue.len 0 progress 1, try 1
D000001: deferred_remove package dselect-dbgsym:amd64
D000001: checking dependencies for remove 'dselect-dbgsym:amd64'
Removing dselect-dbgsym (1.18.24) ...
D000001: removal_bulk package dselect-dbgsym:amd64
D000001: removal_bulk cleaning info directory
D000001: removal_bulk purging? foundpostrm=0
D000001: removal_bulk no postrm, no conffiles, purging
D000001: removal_bulk purge done, removing list
'/var/lib/dpkg/info/dselect-dbgsym.list'
D000001: removal_bulk purge done, removing postrm
'/var/lib/dpkg/info/dselect-dbgsym.postrm'
D000001: removal done
D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2017.06.02' r=-1
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2017.06.02' r=-1
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2017.06.02' r=-1
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.24' b='0:1.16' r=2
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I again re-ran aptitude to get the packages back -

─[$] sudo aptitude install dpkg-dbgsym dselect-dbgsym

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dpkg-dbgsym{b} dselect-dbgsym{b}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,533 kB of archives. After unpacking 1,831 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 dselect-dbgsym : Depends: dselect (= 1.19.0.2) but 1.18.24 is installed
 dpkg-dbgsym : Depends: dpkg (= 1.19.0.2) but 1.18.24 is installed
open: 30; closed: 180; defer: 3; conflict: 5

 oThe following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     dpkg-dbgsym [Not Installed]
2)     dselect-dbgsym [Not Installed]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]


Why does dpkg-dbgsym and select-dbgsym ask for 1.19.0.2 when the
versions of dpkg and dselect are at 1.18.24

Looking forward to know.


-- Package-specific info:

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Acquire::Changelogs::URI::Origin::Ubuntu
"http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/@CHANGEPATH@/changelog";;
Acquire::Changelogs::URI::Origin::Ultimedia
"http://packages.ultimediaos.com/changelogs/pool/@CHANGEPATH@/changelog.txt";;
Acquire::Changelogs::AlwaysOnline "";
Acquire::Changelogs::AlwaysOnline::Origin "";
Acquire::Changelogs::AlwaysOnline::Origin::Ubuntu "1";
Acquire::Languages "";
Acquire::Languages:: "en";
Acquire::Languages:: "none";
Acquire::CompressionTypes "";
Acquire::CompressionTypes::xz "xz";
Acquire::CompressionTypes::bz2 "bzip2";
Acquire::CompressionTypes::lzma "lzma";
Acquire::CompressionTypes::gz "gzip";
Acquire::CompressionTypes::lz4 "lz4";
Binary "apt-config";
Binary::apt "";
Binary::apt::APT "";
Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";
Binary::apt::APT::Color "1";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache "";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Show "";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Show::Version "2";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::AllVersions "0";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowVirtuals "1";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Search "";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Search::Version "2";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowDependencyType "1";
Binary::apt::APT::Cache::ShowVersion "1";
Binary::apt::APT::Get "";
Binary::apt::APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New "1";
Binary::apt::APT::Get::Update "";
Binary::apt::APT::Get::Update::InteractiveReleaseInfoChanges "1";
Binary::apt::APT::Cmd "";
Binary::apt::APT::Cmd::Show-Update-Stats "1";
Binary::apt::DPkg "";
Binary::apt::DPkg::Progress-Fancy "1";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "adequate --help >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0;
exec adequate --user nobody --apt-preinst";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "3";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::InfoFD "20";
DPkg::Tools::Options::adequate "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::adequate::Version "2";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::InfoFD "20";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "adequate --help >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0;
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline exec adequate --debconf --user nobody
--pending";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "/usr/bin/test -e
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service
&& /usr/bin/test -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket && /usr/bin/gdbus
call --system --dest org.freedesktop.PackageKit --object-path
/org/freedesktop/PackageKit --timeout 4 --method
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.StateHasChanged cache-update > /dev/null;
/bin/echo > /dev/null";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "[ ! -e /usr/bin/how-can-i-help ] ||
/usr/bin/how-can-i-help --apt";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "test -x /usr/lib/needrestart/apt-pinvoke &&
/usr/lib/needrestart/apt-pinvoke || true";
AptListbugs "";
AptListbugs::Severities "critical,grave,serious";
Adequate "";
Adequate::Enabled "true";
apt-file "";
apt-file::Index-Names "deb";
Unattended-Upgrade "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern "";
Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern::
"origin=Debian,codename=${distro_codename},label=Debian-Security";
CommandLine "";
CommandLine::AsString "apt-config dump";

-- /etc/apt/preferences --

Package: *
Pin: release testing
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release experimental
Pin-Priority: 1

Package: *
Pin: release unstable
Pin-Priority: 1

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

 #### Debian buster #########
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

 #### Debian unstable #########
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib

 #### Debian experimental #########
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib

 ##### Debian Debug packages #######
deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ buster-debug main
deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ unstable-debug main
deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ experimental-debug main

######## Third party repos #######
# deb https://riot.im/packages/debian/ buster main

########## Non-free ########
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org buster main non-free

-- /etc/apt/sources.list.d/matrix-riot.list --

deb https://riot.im/packages/debian/ sid main
deb-src https://riot.im/packages/debian/ sid main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental'), (1,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.116
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2017.6
ii  gpgv                    2.2.1-2
ii  init-system-helpers     1.50
ii  libapt-pkg5.0           1.5
ii  libc6                   2.24-17
ii  libgcc1                 1:7.2.0-8
ii  libgnutls30             3.5.15-2
ii  libstdc++6              7.2.0-8

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20170717

Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii  apt-doc         1.5
ii  aptitude        0.8.9-1
ii  dpkg-dev        1.18.24
ii  gnupg           2.2.1-2
ii  gnupg1          1.4.22-3
ii  gnupg2          2.2.1-2
ii  powermgmt-base  1.31+nmu1
ii  python-apt      1.4.0~beta3+b1
ii  synaptic        0.84.2
ii  wajig           2.18.1

-- no debconf information

Please fix the same.

-- 
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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