[Aptitude-devel] Bug#474876: aptitude: selections lost by package reconfiguration

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi both,

2008-04-07 21:29 Yann Dirson:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.11.1-1
>Severity: normal
>
>After selecting packages for upgrade or hold, and asking to
>reconfigure some package, the said changes to the selection are lost
>when coming back from reconfiguration: the state is the same as when I
>launched aptitude.


2013-05-15 10:03 Matus UHLAR - fantomas:
>Hello,
>
>looging at the sources, seems that this problem is caused by releasing cache
>file lock before and calling
>
>          apt_reload_cache(p->get_progress().unsafe_get_ref(), true);
>
>after the dpkg-reconfigure command is executed. This is apparently to
>allow changes to be done by dpkg-reconfigure.
>
>Could this be solved either by saving the changes prior to releasing lock,
>or only by reloading status database?


Thanks for the report.  Fixed now and will be present in the next
release, so marking as +pending.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>