[Aptitude-devel] Bug#794426: Bug#794426: aptitude: Fails to update sources

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Javier,

Javier Barroso wrote:
> $ LANG=C sudo apt update
> ...
> Des:8 http://ftp.fi.debian.org sid/main Sources 2015-08-02-2047.38.pdiff
> [19,5 kB]

This is not the file which fails below:

> E: Could not open file
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_contrib_source_Sources.IndexDiff
> - open (2: No such file or directory)
> 
> javi at Doraemon:~$ ls -l \
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_contrib_source_Sources.diff_Index
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7819 jul 29 22:52
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fi.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_contrib_source_Sources.diff_Index
[...]
> It should work, like on apt, apt-get or cupt

Any chance that you have apt 1.1 from experimental installed? That one
doesn't yet work well together with aptitude. This looks similar to
https://bugs.debian.org/764506 but there are also other
apt-1.1-related bugs.

> I suppose I can remove next line on sources.list:
> /etc/apt/sources.list:deb-src http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/ sid main

No. This is the line for sid/main. What failed was the line for
sid/contrib.

		Regards, Axel
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