[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798797: aptitude: Version in sid does not play nice with apt from experimental

[Guillem Jover]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.1-1
Severity: important

Hi!

I'm using apt from experimental (1.1~exp12), and aptitude from sid
(0.7.1-1), which is linked against libapt-pkg4.16, sid's apt library.

Just after upgrading apt from experimental, aptitude works fine.
Immediately after doing the first «apt update», then suddenly aptitude
loses track of any installed package, and considers all of them as
obsolete/local, except for ~c ones. In addition I cannot mark the ~c
ones as automatic. Here's the relevant “screenshot”:

,---
--\ Not Installed Packages (5)
  --- games - Games, toys, and fun programs (1)
  --- graphics - Utilities to create, view, and edit graphics files (1)
  --\ libs - Collections of software routines (3)
    --\ main - The main Debian archive (3)
c    libapt-inst1.7                                <none>         <none>
c    libexiv2-13                                   <none>         <none>
c    libsrtp0                                      <none>         <none>
--- Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (2762)
--- Virtual Packages (1058)
`---

I'm also using a Deb822 formatted sources.list file. Please let me know
if you cannot reproduce, and I'll try to provide more information.

Thanks,
Guillem