[Aptitude-devel] Bug#689238: aptitude calls localepurge even if the invocation installed no package(s)

Sun Sep 30 18:55:41 BST 2012

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have localepurge installed, and when I do something like:

# aptitude install $package

and the package name is misspelled, or if the package is already installed and
not upgradable (i.e. the installed version is the same as the repository
version), aptitude calls localepurge, which seems like a waste of time.

For example, assuming that python-sqlite is already installed:

# aptitude install python-sqlite
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

I'm not 100% sure that it's a bug in aptitude instead of localepurge,
please excuse me if I'm pointing in the wrong direction.

If I use apt-get instead of aptitude, the behaviour is different: no
localepurge invocation.

Best regards,
Mark

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: rxvt-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.1 compiled at Sep 25 2012 15:27:00
Compiler: g++ 4.7.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7796000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb7213000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb71e0000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb71bf000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb71ba000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb70ba000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb7027000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6e3e000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6e24000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6d73000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6d5b000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d42000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c56000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c2f000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6c12000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6ab5000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6ab1000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6aad000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6a9b000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6a95000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6a8c000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7797000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.1-2
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.4
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                     2.13-35
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.1-7
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.1-7
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.10.1
ii  tasksel  3.12

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