[Aptitude-devel] Bug#841506: aptitude: cannot reinstall package available as update

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.3-1+b1
Severity: important

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Aptitude has thrown me into limbo (hence severity important):

A kernel update failed (ran out of space in /boot, and/or bugs in kernel
hooks for sicherboot), flagging it as needing a reinstall.

Choosing "L" to reinstall and then "G", is refused with (in danish, on
my system) a message saying that no packages will be installed, removed
or upgraded, some packages could be upgraded, and I should press "U" to
do that.

Seems that check is missing the option of reinstall in its logic.

 - Jonas


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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.3
Compiler: g++ 6.2.0 20160914
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160917
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff88d97000)
	libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 (0x00007f39f5be5000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f39f5840000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f39f5610000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f39f53e6000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f39f51df000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f39f4ee0000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f39f4bd8000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f39f49c0000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f39f47a7000)
	libboost_system.so.1.61.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.61.0 (0x00007f39f45a3000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f39f4197000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f39f3f78000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f39f3bf7000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f39f38f3000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f39f36dc000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f39f333e000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f39f313a000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f39f2f21000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f39f2d06000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f39f2af6000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f39f28d0000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f39f26be000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f39f24b6000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f39f22af000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055a2e180a000)

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

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=da_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.3-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.3.1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.61.0  1.61.0+dfsg-2.1+b1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.61.0   1.61.0+dfsg-2.1+b1
ii  libboost-system1.61.0      1.61.0+dfsg-2.1+b1
ii  libc6                      2.24-5
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:6.2.0-9
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160917-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.15.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                 6.2.0-9
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160917-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.0-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-11
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.49
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  debtags                         2.1.2
ii  tasksel                         3.36

- -- no debconf information

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