[Aptitude-devel] Bug#718243: aptitude: always happens when some time has passed since the last update run

[Axel Stammler]

Package: aptitude
Followup-For: Bug #718243

Dear Maintainer,

I have been testing this for a while.

I'm sorry, it does not happen intermittently. It always happens (with any package from any
repository) after a certain time has passed since the last update run.

On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Daniel Hartwig wrote:

> Do you also get this error when using apt-get?

Yes, I do.

> > -- sources.list:
> > deb http://flora-e/debian ./
> > deb http://montevideo.homedns.org/debian ./
> 
> Do these repositories implement secure apt (see apt-secure(8))?

It is the same repository accessed either locally or via the internet, and it does have
its own key, which I installed using apt-key. Without the key being installed, an error is
reported during update runs already.

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov  5 2012 06:20:41
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-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7709000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb7192000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb715f000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb713e000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7139000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7039000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb6fa6000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6dbd000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6da3000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6cf3000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6cdc000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6cc3000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6bd7000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6bb0000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6b93000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6a30000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6a2c000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6a28000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6a16000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6a10000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6a07000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb770a000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.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            0.9.7.9
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+deb7u1
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
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.14.1

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