[Aptitude-devel] Bug#915145: aptitude: bad format string internel error when in upgrade preview view

[Zhang Jingqiang]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.11-6
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

When there are packages ugradable, select them to upgrade,
and press 'g' to enter preview mode, then select any one
of the packages, you will see
  Internal error: bad format string code ' '
in the bottom window.
Are there some detailed package information show there previously?

Thanks

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.11
Compiler: g++ 8.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 5.0.2
  NCurses version 6.1
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20181013
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd7cbdf000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f70704e5000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f70704ab000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f707047d000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7070474000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f707036e000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f707024d000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f707022d000)
	libboost_system.so.1.67.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f7070226000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f706fffb000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f706ffda000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f706fe57000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f706fcd4000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f706fcb8000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f706faf7000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f706fadd000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f706f8bf000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f706f8ac000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f706f686000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f706f467000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f706f3cc000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f706f3ac000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7070b0d000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f706f3a7000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f706f39d000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f706f392000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=zh_CN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.11-6
ii  libapt-pkg5.0             1.8.0~alpha2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.67.0  1.67.0-10
ii  libboost-system1.67.0     1.67.0-10
ii  libc6                     2.28-1
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-11
ii  libgcc1                   1:8.2.0-10
ii  libncursesw6              6.1+20181013-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.10.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.25.3-2
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-10
ii  libtinfo6                 6.1+20181013-1
ii  libxapian30               1.4.9-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-13
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.12

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.48

-- no debconf information