[Aptitude-devel] Bug#758764: Bug#758764: E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Dan,

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.6.11-1
> 
> # set libglib2.0-data
> # aptitude install $@
> The following packages will be upgraded: 
>   libglib2.0-data  
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 11.3 kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
> E: Can't find a source to download version '8:6.8.8.9-3' of 'imagemagick-doc:i386'
> E: Can't find a source to download version '8:6.8.8.9-3' of 'imagemagick-doc:i386'
> E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

Interesting. The error messages seem totally unrelated. Did you have
any other actions scheduled, e.g. via "aptitude $action
--schedule-only $package" or the TUI?

Why should be there a version 8:6.8.8.9-3 of imagemagick? The newest
version of imagemagick in the archive is only 8:6.8.8.9-2 according to
https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/imagemagick.html (which includes
what's on incoming.debian.org btw.)

My guess is that there is the installation of imagemagick-doc:i386
version 8:6.8.8.9-3 scheduled, but it's nowhere available anymore. It
must have been installed (or scheduled to be installed from a local
APT repo) in the past, maybe self-compiled and then removed or
downgraded with non-aptitude, e.g. "dpkg -i".

Please tell us about the history of imagemagick-doc:i386 on your
system. (/var/log/dpkg.log and /var/log/aptitude may help there.)

		Regards, Axel
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