[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816385: aptitude: Regression with 0.7.7: "aptitude -u" no more works

[Florent]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.7-1
Followup-For: Bug #816385

Dear Maintainer,


I confirm the bug with different command arguments.

This command works and gives no error:

  sudo aptitude update


This command gives same error as reported before:

  sudo aptitude update -q

  E: The package cache is not available; unable to download and install packages.


-- 
Florent

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.7
Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160224
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.6.2
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd013d1000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007ff5d4b91000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007ff5d4961000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007ff5d4736000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007ff5d4530000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007ff5d4233000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007ff5d3f5c000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007ff5d3d42000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007ff5d3b29000)
	libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007ff5d3924000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007ff5d3520000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff5d3303000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff5d2f87000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff5d2c82000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff5d2a6c000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff5d26c7000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007ff5d24c4000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007ff5d22c0000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007ff5d20a8000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007ff5d1e8d000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007ff5d1c7d000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007ff5d1a59000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007ff5d1847000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007ff5d163e000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007ff5d1439000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000056441e15f000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3-6.dmz.2-liquorix-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.7.7-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.2.3
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                      2.21-9
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:5.3.1-10
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160213-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.6.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.11.0-2
ii  libstdc++6                 5.3.1-10
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160213-1
ii  libxapian22v5              1.2.22-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.34

-- no debconf information