[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816781: aptitude: Can not cancel pending upgrade actions

[Cesare Leonardi]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.7-1
Followup-For: Bug #816781

Since some times I'm hitting the following bug and today I've found the
time to report it to Debian. Even if it's a different use case, I think
it's closely related to this bug, so i'm posting here.

Steps to reproduce (always reproducible for me):
- Open the TUI;
- Press [u] to search for updates;
- Review the upgradable package list and press [U] to mark them as
  upgradable;
- Decide to postpone the real upgrade and exit from aptitude;
- Re-enter the TUI but for some reason you want aptitude forget all
  pending actions by pressing the corresponding menu entry;
- Observe that aptitude make some work but doesn't actually forget
  nothing.

Note that the same command works as expected if it's given during the
same session, without exit.

If I understand correctly, Manuel suggests to use the following
steps to obtain the same practical effect as cancel pending actions:
- With the cursor go on the "Upgradable Packages" tree root.
- Package -> Keep

Is that correct?
But in that case i haven't understood now what the "Cancel pending
actions" command is for.

Cesare.


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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.7
Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170406
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.1
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.1

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc688a4000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f35fc6a2000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f35fc472000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f35fc248000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f35fc041000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f35fbd44000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f35fba3a000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f35fb822000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f35fb609000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f35fb405000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f35faff1000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f35fadd4000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f35faa50000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f35fa74c000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f35fa535000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f35fa197000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f35f9f93000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f35f9d7c000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f35f9b60000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f35f9950000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f35f972a000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f35f9518000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f35f9310000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f35f9109000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055db3ead2000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.8.7-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.4.4
ii  libboost-filesystem1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0   1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libboost-system1.62.0      1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii  libc6                      2.24-10
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:6.3.0-18
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20161126-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.16.2-3
ii  libstdc++6                 6.3.0-18
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20161126-1
ii  libxapian30                1.4.3-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.39

-- no debconf information