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

[Guillem Jover]

On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 14:57:25 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure if this was also directed at me, but in any case, I don't
think I've ever stopped experiencing this from time to time. And it's
always been with packages coming from the main Debian archive. Although
I do have a single personal repo with a handful of packages.

Thanks,
Guillem