[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#363358: apt thinks mailman package needs to be upgraded forever

[Tyler MacDonald]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1
Severity: normal


This may actually be an apt bug, but it only seems to be affecting mailman:

On two of my systems, when I do an "apt-get dselect-upgrade" or "apt-get
dist-upgrade", apt-get thinks that the mailman package needs to be upgraded.
It then does the upgrade, claims it was upgraded fine, but running the same
command says that mailman needs to be upgraded *again*!

	Thanks,
		Tyler



adserton:/home/faraway# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  kernel-image-2.4-686-smp
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mailman
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7995kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  mailman
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Looking for enabled languages (this may take some time) ... done.
(Reading database ... 73778 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mailman 2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1 (using
.../mailman_0%3a2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1_i386.deb) ...
Shutting down Mailman's master qrunner
Unpacking replacement mailman ...
Setting up mailman (2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1) ...
Installing site language de ................................ done.
Installing site language en ............................................
done.
No updates are necessary.
Starting Mailman's master qrunner.

adserton:/home/faraway# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  kernel-image-2.4-686-smp
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mailman
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7995kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
adserton:/home/faraway# apt-get dselect-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mailman
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7995kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  mailman
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Looking for enabled languages (this may take some time) ... done.
(Reading database ... 73778 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mailman 2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1 (using
.../mailman_0%3a2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1_i386.deb) ...
Shutting down Mailman's master qrunner
Unpacking replacement mailman ...
Setting up mailman (2.1.7-2.1.8rc1-1) ...
Installing site language de ................................ done.
Installing site language en ............................................
done.
No updates are necessary.
Starting Mailman's master qrunner.

adserton:/home/faraway# apt-get dselect-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mailman
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7995kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
adserton:/home/faraway# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  kernel-image-2.4-686-smp
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mailman
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7995kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
adserton:/home/faraway#



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)