[Aptitude-devel] Bug#822528: aptitude: package gcc-6 installed from experimental not visible in aptitude

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

After upgrading aptitude to 0.8.1 I could no longer find package gcc-6
in aptitude even though dpkg -l still found it as it was still installed
on this machine.

I had upgraded gcc-6 using aptitude 0.7.8, but even after downgrading
aptitude to 0.7.8 again a search in aptitude for package "gcc-6" failed.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8
Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160409
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.8.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160319
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffca637c000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fa69aca4000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fa69aa74000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fa69a849000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fa69a642000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fa69a345000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fa69a04a000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fa699e30000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fa699c17000)
	libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fa699a12000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fa69960e000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa6993f1000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fa69906f000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa698d71000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa698b5b000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa6987b6000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fa6985b3000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa6983af000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fa698197000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa697f7c000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fa697d6c000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fa697b48000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fa697936000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fa69772d000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fa697528000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000564300958000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-rc4+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.2.10
ii  libboost-filesystem1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0   1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-system1.58.0      1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libc6                      2.22-7
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:6.0.1-1
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160319-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.8.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.12.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                 6.0.1-1
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160319-1
ii  libxapian22v5              1.2.23-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.47+nmu2
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8-1
ii  debtags                         2.0.2
ii  tasksel                         3.34

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