[Aptitude-devel] Bug#784275:

[shirish शिरीष]

Subject: aptitude forget-new doesn't work as advertised but only with libgnutls
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
I usually use aptitude 'aptn' and aptfn' to search for new files and
to tell aptitude to forget new files.

Sharing the aliases :-

[$] alias aptn

aptn='aptitude search '\''~N'\'

and

[$] alias aptfn

aptfn='sudo aptitude forget-new'

This is the output I have been seeing over past few weeks/months :-

[$] aptn

i   libgnutls26  - GNU TLS library - runtime library

[$] aptfn

[sudo] password for shirish:

[$] aptn

i   libgnutls26  - GNU TLS library - runtime library

As can be seen no matter what I do libgnutls26 is seen  as being new.
I dunno whether that's a bug in aptitude, in apt or somewhere else.

[$] apt-cache policy libgnutls26

libgnutls26:
  Installed: 2.12.23-18
  Candidate: 2.12.23-18
  Version table:
 *** 2.12.23-18 0
          1 http://httpredir.debian.org//debian/ experimental/main
amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Look forward to more solutions.

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov  8 2014 13:34:39
Compiler: g++ 4.9.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe8f8c9000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12
(0x00007f0bc51d6000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f0bc4fa0000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f0bc4d75000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007f0bc4b6f000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3
(0x00007f0bc4859000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007f0bc4590000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 =>
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0
(0x00007f0bc4378000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f0bc3f67000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f0bc3d49000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f0bc39ce000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f0bc36cd000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f0bc34b6000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f0bc310d000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f0bc2f0a000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f0bc2d05000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f0bc2aea000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f0bc28da000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f0bc26b6000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f0bc24ae000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f0bc22a8000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f0bc5bd6000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (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           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.8
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-18
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.1.1-4
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.4-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.1.1-4
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1.1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
ii  debtags           1.12.3
ii  tasksel           3.31

-- no debconf information

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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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