[Aptitude-devel] Bug#800570: Bug#800570: Bug#799934: aptitude: Package metadata disappears for upgradable installed packages

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

nandhp wrote:
> Since there's been no activity on this bug for a couple of years, I just
> wanted to mention that this happened to me a few days ago when I
> upgraded to stretch. When running aptitude after upgrading the
> distribution, obsolete/locally created packages had descriptions and
> metadata from other packages, or even none at all in some cases.
> 
> However, the problem went away on its own for me too.

Thanks for the notice. I haven't seen this issue for quite a while.
And at least the last few times I remember having noticed it, it was
either only in derivatives (Kali IIRC) or with 3rd party repositories.

So I wonder if its related to the repository format.

Does it happen for you with official Debian repositories or with 3rd
party repositories?

		Regards, Axel
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