[Aptitude-devel] Bug#728577: E: Unable to stat <filename>. - stat (2: no such file or directory)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hello Arthur,

2013-11-03 08:55 Arthur Marsh:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.8.2-1.2
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
>   * What led up to the situation?
>
>pressing F10 then o to remove obsolete files
>
>   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>     ineffective)?
>   * What was the outcome of this action?
>
>some but not all obsolete files would be deleted
>
>   * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
>all obsolete files to be deleted.

Were/are you able to reproduce this, or can you give a concrete example
with files that remain present that you wanted removed?


To hazard a wild guess... I see that you use a mix of unstable, testing,
stable, oldstable...:

>-- System Information:
>Debian Release: jessie/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
>Architecture: i386 (i686)

I am wondering if what you consider obsolete is different from what
aptitude/apt consider obsolete.

For example, maybe you only want to keep the latest version of a package
(the one in unstable/experimental), while maybe aptitude/apt don't
consider the .deb files obsolete if the file is present in any of the
suites that you have enabled in your system.


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