[Aptitude-devel] Bug#910110: aptitude: aptitude does not update libxapian30 during aptitude "self upgrade"

Tue Oct 2 20:57:34 BST 2018

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.11-3
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Dear Maintainer,

** IMPORTANT **
current report was not created on affected system, so do not take into account
"bugreport" automatic attached informations.
** /IMPORTANT **

Issue occure into a Debian Testing system.

I've to work on a not up-to-date system (about 1200 packages to update), so I
start to first update "aptitude" itself:
# aptitude install aptitude

This work fine.

But after, for any "aptitude" command, this fail with:

aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol:
_ZN6Xapian4MSetC1EOS0_

Issue is that "aptitude" depends on "libxapian30", who was installed on the
past, but NOT upgraded by last "aptitude install aptitude"

OLD installed package:
ii  libxapian30:amd64    1.4.3-2    amd64    Search engine library

UP-TO-DATE package:
ii  libxapian30:amd64    1.4.7-2    amd64    Search engine library

In order to fix issue, I've to use "apt" to upgrade "libxapian30":

# apt-get install libxapian30

<log>
2018-10-02 21:31:15 upgrade libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2 1.4.7-2
2018-10-02 21:31:15 status half-configured libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2
2018-10-02 21:31:15 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2
2018-10-02 21:31:15 status half-installed libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2
2018-10-02 21:31:15 status half-installed libxapian30:amd64 1.4.3-2
2018-10-02 21:31:16 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2
2018-10-02 21:31:16 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2
2018-10-02 21:31:16 configure libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2 <aucune>
2018-10-02 21:31:16 status unpacked libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2
2018-10-02 21:31:16 status half-configured libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2
2018-10-02 21:31:16 status installed libxapian30:amd64 1.4.7-2
</log>

Issue fixed, no more "undefined symbol" issue !

In order to definitively fix issue, "aptitude" package dependancies should be
modified:
- Currently, we have:
        Dépend: [...], libxapian30

- Now, we should have something like:
        Dépend: [...], libxapian30 (>=1.4.7-2)

Thanks for your help !

Best regards,

                                  Olivier

-- 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: 2.10.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20180714
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 5.0.2

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdfc3f0000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fc80f377000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fc80f33d000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fc80f30f000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc80f306000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fc80f200000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc80f0e0000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc80f0c1000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007fc80f0bc000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fc80ee96000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc80ee75000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc80ecf2000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc80eb5e000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc80eb42000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc80e985000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fc80e96c000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc80e74e000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc80e73b000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc80e515000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fc80e2f6000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fc80e25b000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fc80e23b000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc80f9be000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc80e236000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc80e22c000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc80e221000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (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           0.8.11-3
ii  libapt-pkg5.0             1.7.0~rc2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.62.0  1.62.0+dfsg-10
ii  libboost-system1.62.0     1.62.0+dfsg-10
ii  libc6                     2.27-6
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-11
ii  libgcc1                   1:8.2.0-7
ii  libncursesw6              6.1+20180714-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.10.0-2.1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.25.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-7
ii  libtinfo6                 6.1+20180714-1
ii  libxapian30               1.4.7-2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
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                         3.46

-- no debconf information