[Aptitude-devel] Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or directory)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-09-25 14:54 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
>>>>>> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> writes:
>
>MAFM> If you are indeed using apt-1.1...
>
>reportbug --template won't tell you that (a bug in itself!)

Huh?  Yes it does, at least in the general case.

First this:

>Compiled against:
>  apt version 4.16.0
>  NCurses version 6.0
>  libsigc++ version: 2.4.1
>  Gtk+ support disabled.
>  Qt support disabled.
>
>Current library versions:
>  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810
>  cwidget version: 0.5.17
>  Apt version: 4.16.0

(it is the SOVERSION, but still useful)


>aptitude linkage:
>	linux-gate.so.1 (0xb77f7000)
>	libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0xb72cb000)

I can do dpkg -S on that (or search in packages.d.o) to also see the
version.


And specially:
>Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
>ii  aptitude-common           0.7.2-1
>ii  libapt-pkg4.16            1.0.10.2
>ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-3


Then:

>So I need to do
>
># apt-cache policy apt
>apt:
>  Installed: 1.1~exp12
>  Candidate: 1.1~exp12
>  Version table:
> *** 1.1~exp12 990
>        990 http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian experimental/main i386 Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     1.0.10.2 500
>        500 http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 Packages
>
>to tell it to you.

Yes, but libapt-pkg4.16 is still installed in your system and it is what
aptitude uses for its operations.

My question should have been more precise, if aptitude was using
libraries from apt-1.1 or apt-1.0*).  Although I am not sure if using
the retrieval methods comes from the library or other packages and if
there can be incompatibilities.


>But I don't want to downgrade, as it might mess up my system.
>
>What would be more helpful would for you folks in the Debian Labs to
>upgrade and see what happens. Thanks.

Cannot do at the moment, my only system is still messed up with the
GCC-5 and KDE transition :-)


Apart from that, I also suspect that might be a specific problem with
the mirrors (apt asking for files not available) and/or the timing.  I
don't think that there is anything that we can do from aptitude about
this.


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