[Aptitude-devel] Bug#721426: aptitude: packages are sometimes selected for upgrade by default just after aptitude is started

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2016-03-09 12:46:04 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I have:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 9536507 2016-03-09 11:15:43 /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
> -rw-r--r-- 1 9526471 2016-03-08 09:38:42 /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.old
> 
> Note that /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates dates from before the upgrade.
> Is that correct?

Actually before 20 seconds before beginning of the log report of the
upgrade.

$ grep -B 7 'Upgrade: yes' pkgstates | grep 'Package:' | sort
Package: clang-3.8
Package: clang-3.8-doc
Package: firebird2.5-common
Package: firebird2.5-common-doc
Package: firebird2.5-server-common
Package: libclang-common-3.8-dev
Package: libclang1-3.8
Package: libdebconfclient0
Package: libfbclient2
Package: libfbembed2.5
Package: libllvm3.8
Package: libnspr4
Package: libopencv-calib3d2.4v5
Package: libopencv-contrib2.4v5
Package: libopencv-core2.4v5
Package: libopencv-features2d2.4v5
Package: libopencv-flann2.4v5
Package: libopencv-highgui2.4v5
Package: libopencv-imgproc2.4v5
Package: libopencv-legacy2.4v5
Package: libopencv-ml2.4v5
Package: libopencv-objdetect2.4v5
Package: libopencv-video2.4v5
Package: libsmbclient
Package: libwbclient0
Package: llvm-3.8
Package: llvm-3.8-dev
Package: llvm-3.8-runtime
Package: mksh
Package: nano
Package: openssh-client
Package: openssh-server
Package: openssh-sftp-server
Package: pax
Package: ruby-domain-name
Package: samba-libs
Package: x11-common
Package: xbase-clients
Package: xorg
Package: xserver-xorg
Package: xserver-xorg-input-all
Package: xserver-xorg-video-all

They correspond to the upgraded packages. This seems to be a bug to
still have 'Upgrade: yes' after the upgrade.

Shouldn't aptitude have removed the 'Upgrade: yes' after the upgrade?
(In case of failure, keep only those corresponding to the packages
that couldn't be upgraded.)

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