[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1033556: aptitude: "aptitude --show-summary=all-packages why ..." outputs the wrong package for Provides

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5
Severity: normal

Consider for instance:

$ aptitude why mailutils
i   muttprint Recommends mutt | sylpheed | gnus | xfmail | exmh | mail-reader
i A mailutils Provides   mail-reader

Here, one can see that mailutils provides mail-reader.

$ aptitude --show-summary=all-packages why mailutils
Packages requiring mailutils:
  muttprint R: mail-reader P<- mail-reader

But here one has mail-reader on both sides of "P<-". I suppose that
this should have been

  muttprint R: mail-reader P<- mailutils

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.13
Compiler: g++ 12.1.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 6.0.0
  NCurses version 6.3
  libsigc++ version: 2.10.8
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.4.20221231
  cwidget version: 0.5.18
  Apt version: 6.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff29f63000)
	libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 (0x00007f1a978c8000)
	libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0 (0x00007f1a97205000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f1a9788e000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f1a9785c000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f1a97853000)
	libcwidget.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007f1a97113000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f1a96fb4000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 (0x00007f1a97839000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f1a96c00000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1a97834000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f1a96800000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1a96ed5000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1a96eb5000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1a96a1f000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1a9782d000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f1a96e96000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f1a9781a000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f1a96e65000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f1a96e3f000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f1a96744000)
	libudev.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f1a96717000)
	libsystemd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f1a96648000)
	libgcrypt.so.20 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f1a96501000)
	libxxhash.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007f1a964ec000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1a978f5000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f1a96e33000)
	libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f1a964e0000)
	libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f1a964b8000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.13-5
ii  libapt-pkg6.0             2.6.0
ii  libboost-iostreams1.74.0  1.74.0+ds1-20
ii  libc6                     2.36-8
ii  libcwidget4               0.5.18-6
ii  libgcc-s1                 12.2.0-14
ii  libncursesw6              6.4-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.12.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.40.1-2
ii  libstdc++6                12.2.0-14
ii  libtinfo6                 6.4-2
ii  libxapian30               1.4.22-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libdpkg-perl    1.21.21
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.17+nmu1

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.72

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