[Aptitude-devel] Bug#574912: show: State wrong when forbidding etc. interferes

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible


2010-03-22 01:51 jidanni at jidanni.org:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.1.5-3
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Here we see "State: not installed" when a package is indeed installed.
>Apparently some other factor is interfering.
>
>$ aptitude show libcairo2
>Package: libcairo2
>State: not installed
>Forbidden version: 1.9.4-1
>Automatically installed: yes
>Version: 1.9.6-5
>Priority: optional
>Section: libs
>Maintainer: Dave Beckett <dajobe at debian.org>
>Uncompressed Size: 1,262k
>Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>=
>         2.2.1), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.15.16), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libx11-6
>         (>= 0), libxcb-render0 (>= 0), libxcb-shm0 (>= 0), libxcb1 (>= 1.2),
>         libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
>Breaks: iceape-browser (<= 2.0.3-3), libgtk-directfb-2.0-0, xulrunner-1.9,
>        xulrunner-1.9.1 (<= 1.9.1.8-3)
>Description: The Cairo 2D vector graphics library
> Cairo is a multi-platform library providing anti-aliased vector-based rendering
> for multiple target backends. Paths consist of line segments and cubic splines
> and can be rendered at any width with various join and cap styles. All colors
> may be specified with optional translucence (opacity/alpha) and combined using
> the extended Porter/Duff compositing algebra as found in the X Render
> Extension.
>
> Cairo exports a stateful rendering API similar in spirit to the path
> construction, text, and painting operators of PostScript, (with the significant
> addition of translucence in the imaging model). When complete, the API is
> intended to support the complete imaging model of PDF 1.4.
>
> This package contains the shared libraries.
>Homepage: http://cairographics.org/
>
>$ apt-cache policy libcairo2
>libcairo2:
>  Installed: 1.8.8-2
>  Candidate: 1.9.6-5
>  Version table:
>     1.9.6-5 0
>        990 http://ftp.tw.debian.org experimental/main Packages
>     1.8.10-3 0
>        500 http://ftp.tw.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> *** 1.8.8-2 0
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  $ aptitude show grub-pc
  Package: grub-pc
  State: installed
  Forbidden version: 2.02~beta2-29
  Automatically installed: no
  Multi-Arch: foreign
  Version: 2.02~beta2-28
  ...


Maybe this has been fixed in the 5.5 years in between, otherwise this is
not the condition that triggers the problem.


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