Bug#855937: marked as done (apt-get's error messages don't include its name.)
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and subject line Re: Bug#855937: apt-get's error messages don't include its name.
has caused the Debian Bug report #855937,
regarding apt-get's error messages don't include its name.
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Package: apt
Version: 1.2.19
Running apticron, manually or by cron, results in
E: Held packages were changed and -y was used without --allow-change-held-packages.
Using strace, I found this is from one of the commands it runs and can
trigger it directly.
# /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated \
> -s dist-upgrade
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following held packages will be changed:
hhvm
The following packages will be upgraded:
hhvm
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
E: Held packages were changed and -y was used without --allow-change-held-packages.
#
apt-get should be producing error messages that start with its program
name, as is the Unix tradition, otherwise tracking down the culprit from
scripts and pipelines is more difficult.
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--- Begin Message ---
Control: tag -1 wontfix
Control: severity -1 wishlist
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:14:13PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.2.19
>
> Running apticron, manually or by cron, results in
>
> E: Held packages were changed and -y was used without --allow-change-held-packages.
>
> Using strace, I found this is from one of the commands it runs and can
> trigger it directly.
>
> # /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --ignore-hold --allow-unauthenticated \
> > -s dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> Calculating upgrade...
> The following held packages will be changed:
> hhvm
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> hhvm
> 1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
> E: Held packages were changed and -y was used without --allow-change-held-packages.
> #
>
> apt-get should be producing error messages that start with its program
> name, as is the Unix tradition, otherwise tracking down the culprit from
> scripts and pipelines is more difficult.
Not going to happen. The output has been this way for almost 20 years,
we're not suddenly going to prepend stuff to it - that would actually
break things.
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