[Aptitude-devel] Bug#818919: aptitude markauto runs wild, if package does not exist

[ziegler at uni-freiburg.de]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

If PATTERN does not match a package, the command

   aptitude markauto PATTERN

does not stop, using 100% CPU. Example

     aptitude markauto 1234

The same is true for "aptitude forbid-version".

Regards,

Martin

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: linux
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.8
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 (0x00007ffe82493000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f304c83a000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f304c60a000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f304c3df000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f304c1d9000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f304bedc000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f304bbe4000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f304b9ca000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f304b7b1000)
	libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f304b5ac000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f304b1a8000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f304af8b000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f304ac0f000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f304a911000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f304a6fb000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f304a356000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f304a153000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f3049f4f000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f3049d37000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f3049b1c000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f304990c000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f30496e8000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f30494d6000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f30492cd000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f30490c8000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055e066e92000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-00038-gafaea24 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.7.8-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.2.6
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                      2.22-3
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:5.3.1-11
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160213-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.6.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                 5.3.1-11
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160213-1
ii  libxapian22v5              1.2.22-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7.5-3
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>
pn  tasksel           <none>

-- no debconf information