[Aptitude-devel] Bug#587087: aptitude: Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.

[Charley Sheets]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1
Followup-For: Bug #587087

Dear Maintainer,

I found this same internal error when performing a dist-upgrade on my jessie
system. See output below. Please let me know if there is additional relevant
information I can provide.

My aptitude state bundle was too large to attach with reportbug, so I have
uploaded it to the following location:

http://kumquat.picosecond.org/~rcsheets/starbuck-201408061949.tar.bz2

$ sudo aptitude update
.... (this worked fine)
$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  liblognorm1{ab} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  claws-mail claws-mail-i18n claws-mail-pgpmime cups-client cups-common dictionaries-common dosfstools firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc 
  firebird2.5-server-common libcups2 libcups2:i386 libcupsimage2 libfbclient2 libfbembed2.5 libharfbuzz-icu0 libharfbuzz0b libharfbuzz0b:i386 
  libjack-jackd2-0 libparted2 libpcap0.8 libsmbclient libwbclient0 ntfs-3g parted python-smbc rsyslog samba-libs 
28 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15.0 MB of archives. After unpacking 212 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 liblognorm1 : Conflicts: liblognorm0 but 0.3.7-1 is installed.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     liblognorm0                 



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.


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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Jun  9 2014 20:46:57
Compiler: g++ 4.8.3
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.11
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140712
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffff61fe000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007ff030288000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ff030052000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007ff02fe27000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff02fc22000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ff02f91b000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ff02f659000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007ff02f441000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007ff02f036000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff02ee18000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff02eb0d000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff02e80c000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff02e5f5000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff02e24c000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff02e049000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff02de44000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff02dc2c000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007ff02da1c000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007ff02d7f8000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ff02d5f0000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ff02d3ea000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff030c26000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.6
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-2
ii  libc6                     2.19-7
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-1
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140712-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.11-4
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.5-2
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-1
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140712-2
ii  libxapian22               1.2.18-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.20

-- no debconf information