[Aptitude-devel] Bug#922999: aptitude: Aptitude doesn't display package descriptions on arm64

[Robert Latest]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.7-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

when using aptitude to browse packages on the arm64 platform, the
"description" area in the lower half of the screen doesn't display any
descriptions, just the homepage and tags. On my i386 machines it
displays the descriptions but neither tags nor homepage (which I don't
need). I've copied my /etc/apt directory 1:1 from the i386 to the arm
machine, but aptitude keeps behaving differently.

$HOME/.aptitude/config are identical on both machines

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: rxvt-unicode
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.7
Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170415
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 (0x0000007f9e957000)
	libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x0000007f9e39b000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x0000007f9e361000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x0000007f9e328000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x0000007f9e311000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x0000007f9e20a000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x0000007f9e113000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x0000007f9e0ea000)
	libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x0000007f9e0c1000)
	libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x0000007f9e0ad000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x0000007f9de99000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000007f9de6d000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000007f9dcdc000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x0000007f9dc2f000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000007f9dc0d000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x0000007f9dac3000)
	/lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 (0x0000007f9e92d000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x0000007f9dab0000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x0000007f9da8b000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x0000007f9da63000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x0000007f9da41000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x0000007f9da10000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x0000007f9d9f1000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x0000007f9d9da000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x0000007f9d9c5000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.4.174-rockchip64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.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              1.4.9
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                      2.24-11+deb9u4
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.10.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.16.2-5+deb9u1
ii  libstdc++6                 6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
ii  libxapian30                1.4.3-2+deb9u3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  <none>
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.9+deb9u1

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed:
/var/log.hdd/aptitude {
  rotate 6
  monthly
  compress
  missingok
  notifempty
}


-- no debconf information