[Aptitude-devel] Bug#863755: Bug#863755: [aptitude] "This code path should not be reached" message with some override specifiers

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed - moreinfo
Control: affects -1 + aptitude-robot

Hi,

Katsuhiko Nishimra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 10:39:56PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> I was talkng about keep "specifier", that is, firefox-ja':', a colon 
> after a package name, and hold "specifier" firefox-ja'='.
> 
> So please try these two commands.
>  aptitude -s install whatever:
>  aptitude -s install whatever=
> 
> To see install, remove, and purge specifier is OK, try these three commands.
>  aptitude -s install whaterver+
>  aptitude -s install whaterver-
>  aptitude -s install whaterver_

I can confirm that. I just ran into it on a freshly dist-upgraded
server with aptitude-robot:

# aptitude-robot
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

And on the commandline manually (with an obvious example):

~ → aptitude -s install apt:
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
This code path should not be reached (now implemented in cmdline_mark)
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Would download/install/remove packages.

		Regards, Axel
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