[Aptitude-devel] Bug#795150: aptitude: Aptitude displays garbage on screen during resolving

[George Shuklin]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7-1+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After recent update aptitude starts to display garbage instead of the packet
names during 'resolving' stage.

Here example of output: http://snag.gy/qNCPY.jpg

Clearing /var/cache/aptitude does not helps.



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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7 compiled at Aug  7 2015 19:34:17
Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20150730
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.16.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20150516
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.16.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc47967000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0x00007f80c4a17000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f80c47e1000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f80c45b6000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f80c43b0000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f80c40b1000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f80c3de3000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f80c3bca000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f80c37c8000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f80c35aa000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f80c322f000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f80c2f2e000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f80c2d17000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f80c296e000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f80c276b000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f80c2566000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f80c234b000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f80c213b000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f80c1f17000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f80c1d0f000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f80c1b09000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000563211923000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-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
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.7-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.16            1.0.10.1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-19
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-3.1+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.2.1-14
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20150516-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.4.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.2.1-14
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20150516-2
ii  libxapian22v5             1.2.21-1.2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-5
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.33

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