[Aptitude-devel] Bug#705534: aptitude: displays blank list of packages when theme changed to pre-defined (Dselect or Vertical-Split)

[Lev Lamberov]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

   Changing theme in configuration file causes aptitude to
   show only blank list of packages, updating list doesn't help.

   I added Aptitude::Theme "Dselect"; to ~/.aptitude/config, but
   aptitude simply didn't show _any_ package anymore. Same for
   the "Vertical-Split" theme. Both themes _are_ defined in
   /usr/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults, and that file _is_
   read by aptitude.
   
   Expected: theme change and proper working in Dselect or
   Vertical-Split.

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov  7 2012 07:08:03
Compiler: g++ 4.7.2
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-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff487b9000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f2f716e7000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f2f714b7000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f2f7128d000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2f71088000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f2f70d88000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007f2f70ae7000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f2f70702000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2f704eb000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f2f7023f000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007f2f70224000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f2f70008000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f2f6fd00000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2f6fa7e000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f2f6f868000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2f6f4dd000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f2f6f2da000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f2f6f0d6000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f2f6eec5000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f2f6ecc0000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f2f6eab7000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2f7207e000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.2-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.8
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.2
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
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                4.7.2-5
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.8.2-1
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  3.14+nmu2

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