[Aptitude-devel] Bug#624706: aptitude: Wrongly shows packages to be non-free in interactive mode

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Sb, 12 sep 15, 19:39:20, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
...
> I installed an old version from snapshots, 0.7.2-1 (maintainer "Utnubu
> team"), which is in non-free/x11, and the current version 0.8.90-5 from
> unstable section x11 (maintainer "P. Kern") is available.  They are not
> the versions that you describe but they should be fine, I think.
 
I notice in my report that I had the newer version installed, but..

> When I enter package info screen the first time, the section is "x11"
> (and the maintainer "P. Kern"), even if the version currently installed
> is the other one.  If I go to the old or new version, and select (press
> enter), I get the correct information in each case.  I repeat this a
> number of times without problems.

I tried to reproduce this by adding lenny to sources.list (from 
archive.debian.org), but behaviour is correct.

> Maybe the first time that one enters in that screen the information is
> random (I don't think so, though: is probably either current or
> candidate version consistently), but after that it shouldn't be, so I am
> surprised about the behaviour that you describe.
> 
> I am also surprised specially because I think that the section of the
> code has not been touched since ~2005 or so, so your tests a few years
> ago and now should be the same.
> 
> Could you please see if you can reproduce it with this or other
> packages?  (Preferably small and that don't require extra dependencies
> installed, like this one, for ease of testing).

Not sure if this makes a difference, but I'm unable to reproduce this 
with my current setup (pure Jessie install and with Lenny from 
archive.debian.org added to sources.list).

Feel free to close this old bug as unreproducible and thanks for looking 
into such old issues.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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