[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1033357: aptitude: TUI does not display all error messages

Sun Aug 10 15:21:07 BST 2025

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-7
Followup-For: Bug #1033357

Dear Maintainer,

	Bumped in to this today with the release of Debian Trixie, and
`testing` being renamed to Forky.  Aptitude's TUI said some of the
indices weren't downloaded, but didn't say why.  I had to run `apt-get
update` from the shell to get the full story:

```
~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease                                                                      
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease [113 kB]                                                                                   
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                                            
Ign:5 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease                                                               
Hit:6 https://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release                                           
Hit:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease                                              
Hit:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease                  
Hit:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease               
Hit:11 https://download.bareos.org/current/Debian_12  InRelease              
Reading package lists... Done
E: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'trixie' to 'forky'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
```

	I don't expect aptitude to provide the acceptance mechanism, but
I do expect it to give more complete information on failures.

					Schwab

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

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.13
Compiler: g++ 14.2.0
Compiled against:
  apt version 7.0.0
  NCurses version 6.5
  libsigc++ version: 2.12.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.5.20250216
  cwidget version: 0.5.18
  Apt version: 7.0.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fdf05a3b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.7.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.7.0 (0x00007fdf05000000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fdf059d3000)
	libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fdf0599d000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fdf05994000)
	libcwidget.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007fdf0588c000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fdf05280000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.83.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.83.0 (0x00007fdf04fe7000)
	libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007fdf04c00000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fdf04800000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fdf04ef7000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fdf04eca000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fdf0460a000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fdf04eaa000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fdf05875000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fdf04e79000)
	liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fdf04bd9000)
	libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fdf04b0f000)
	libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fdf04aca000)
	libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007fdf044f5000)
	libcrypto.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3 (0x00007fdf03e00000)
	libxxhash.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007fdf04e66000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fdf05a3d000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fdf04ac0000)
	libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007fdf04ab4000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.33+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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           0.8.13-7
ii  libapt-pkg7.0             3.0.3
ii  libboost-iostreams1.83.0  1.83.0-4.2
ii  libc6                     2.41-12
ii  libcwidget4               0.5.18-6+b2
ii  libgcc-s1                 14.2.0-19
ii  libncursesw6              6.5+20250216-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.12.1-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.46.1-7
ii  libstdc++6                14.2.0-19
ii  libtinfo6                 6.5+20250216-2
ii  libxapian30               1.4.29-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libdpkg-perl    1.22.21
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.25

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  debtags                         <none>
ii  tasksel                         3.82

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