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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2016-03-09 16:31:39 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> But I notice the same issue on a different machine, where last in
> /var/log/aptitude, I get:
> 
> Aptitude 0.7.8: log report
> Mon, Mar  7 2016 14:22:40 +0100
> 
> but:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9490347 2016-03-07 14:04:58 pkgstates
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9489801 2016-03-07 14:03:27 pkgstates.old
> 
> with lots of "Upgrade: yes" in pkgstates (all these packages
> are at their latest version, so that the bug is not visible
> when running aptitude).
> 
> On a third machine:
> 
> Aptitude 0.7.8: log report
> Wed, Mar  9 2016 10:24:39 +0100
> 
> and
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6060711 2016-03-09 10:29:51 pkgstates
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6060711 2016-03-09 10:29:48 pkgstates.old
> 
> So, here this seems OK.

The problem also occurred on the third machine.

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