[Aptitude-devel] Bug#885436: /var/log/aptitude shows wrong architecture for architecture:all packages

[Marvin Renich]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.10-1
Severity: normal

/var/log/aptitude shows the default architecture (e.g. amd64) when
logging actions pertaining to an architecture:all package, e.g.

[UPGRADE] console-setup:amd64 1.171 -> 1.172

should be

[UPGRADE] console-setup:all 1.171 -> 1.172

This is making it more difficult to write a script to back out of last N
updates using debsnap, because debsnap can download debs for a specific
architecture or all available architectures, but does not automatically
select an architecture:all deb when a specific architecture is requested
(reasonable behavior for debsnap).

In the extremely rare (I think) case where an upgrade (or downgrade)
replaces a specific architecture package with an architecture all
package, or vice versa, I would be okay with my script breaking because
it does not have enough information from /var/log/aptitude to get it
right.  E.g. I think it is okay to arbitrarily choose one architecture
or the other, but I think it is more useful to know the architecture of
the package being replaced than that of the one being installed.

...Marvin

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.10
Compiler: g++ 7.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.2
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20171125
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc98f75000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f8c1698d000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f8c1675d000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f8c16533000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f8c1632c000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f8c16031000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f8c15d29000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f8c15b11000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f8c158f8000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f8c156f4000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f8c152e9000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f8c150cb000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f8c14d4c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8c14a39000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f8c14822000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8c1447f000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f8c14269000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8c1404f000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f8c13e3f000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f8c13c19000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f8c13a07000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f8c137e9000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8c1734b000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8c135e5000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f8c133dd000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f8c131d8000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.10-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.6~alpha5
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-4+b2
ii  libc6                      2.25-3
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-6
ii  libgcc1                    1:7.2.0-18
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20171125-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.21.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                 7.2.0-18
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20171125-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.5-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.11

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.49
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
ii  debtags                         2.1.4
ii  tasksel                         3.42

-- no debconf information