Bug#1038857: apt-utils: installed but aptitude claims not installed.

[peter@easthope.ca]

Package: apt-utils
Version: 2.2.4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
   I used aptitude to update the system.
   
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
   Aptitude was OK but reported this.
   debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
   
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   Given that apt-utils is installed, puzzlement.
   
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   With apt-utils installed it should work as intended rather than cause 
   a report of absence.
   
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages apt-utils depends on:
ii  apt            2.2.4
ii  libapt-pkg6.0  2.2.4
ii  libc6          2.31-13+deb11u6
ii  libdb5.3       5.3.28+dfsg1-0.8
ii  libgcc-s1      10.2.1-6
ii  libstdc++6     10.2.1-6

apt-utils recommends no packages.

apt-utils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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