[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,

thanks for the additional information!

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> All I know is that I am a victim of bug 758760 .
> 
> All I know is I just to aptitude safe-upgrade and must have swallowed
> something weird yesterday and can't get it out of my system today.
> 
> grep -h imagemagick-doc /var/log/dpkg.log /var/log/aptitude |uniq
> 
> 2014-08-13 11:44:15 upgrade imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.8.9-3 8:6.8.9.6-1

Hrm, I may have misread 8:6.8.8.9-3 as 8:6.8.9.6-3. So scrap that idea
of a locally installed version of the version in experimental + 1.

> 2014-08-13 11:44:15 status half-configured imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.8.9-3
> 2014-08-13 11:44:15 status unpacked imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.8.9-3
> 2014-08-13 11:44:16 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.8.9-3
> 2014-08-13 11:44:35 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.8.9-3
> 2014-08-13 11:44:36 status unpacked imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-13 11:44:37 status unpacked imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-13 11:45:32 configure imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1 <none>
> 2014-08-13 11:45:32 status unpacked imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-13 11:45:32 status half-configured imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-13 11:45:32 status installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 12:07:45 upgrade imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1 8:6.8.9.6-2
> 2014-08-21 12:07:45 status half-configured imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 12:07:45 status unpacked imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 12:07:45 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 12:29:20 upgrade imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1 8:6.8.9.6-2
> 2014-08-21 12:29:20 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 12:33:54 upgrade imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1 8:6.8.9.6-2
> 2014-08-21 12:33:54 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 12:35:28 upgrade imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1 8:6.8.9.6-2
> 2014-08-21 12:35:28 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 12:38:37 upgrade imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1 8:6.8.9.6-2
> 2014-08-21 12:38:37 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> 2014-08-21 13:10:45 upgrade imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1 8:6.8.9.6-2
> 2014-08-21 13:10:45 status half-installed imagemagick-doc:all 8:6.8.9.6-1
> [HOLD] imagemagick-doc:i386
> [UPGRADE] imagemagick-doc:i386 8:6.8.8.9-3 -> 8:6.8.9.6-1
> [HOLD] imagemagick-doc:i386
> [UPGRADE] imagemagick-doc:i386 8:6.8.9.6-1 -> 8:6.8.9.6-2

The interesting thing here is as far as I can see that sometimes,
imagemagick-doc seems an arch:all (dpkg.log) and sometimes an
arch:i386 (aptitude's log) package. According to "apt-cache show" it's
arch:all in both, Sid and Experimental.

So thanks for the additional information! Looks like an multiarch
issues in aptitude to me.

		Regards, Axel
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