[Aptitude-devel] Bug#800570: aptitude: Shows wrong short and long description for "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages" in TUI

[Axel Beckert]

Control: severity -1 normal

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> ---8<---
> 			 Packages                                       linux-image-4.1.0-trunk-amd64 info
> aptitude 0.7.2                                            Will free 170 MB of disk space
> ip       --\ linux-image-4.1.0-trunk-amd64      0  -170 MB   170 MB   4.1.2-1~exp1             <none>
>   Description: Perl module for merging hierarchies using the C3 algorithm

JFTR, after having purged the above shown package (as shown as already
schedule), the issue vanished. And I can't reproduce it with the
generated state bundle either. :-/ Lowering the severity hence.

One thing I can imagine is that I ran into it because I ran "aptitude
-u" and then later couldn't reproduce it with "aptitude" or
"aptitude-run-state-bundle", because the state bundle just caught the
files, not the state of the running process which possibly has updated
/var/lib/dpkg/status. So maybe the internal state and the state inside
/var/lib/dpkg/status has diverged by an offset of just a few packages?

		Regards, Axel
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