Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.7-1
Severity: important
Like many people, I have a local repository in a flat directory, managed
by apt-ftp-archive. The latest aptitude version triggers an internal
apt error trying to install packages from this repository and also
messes up the terminal, introducing a "staircase" effect (the error
message itself comes from libapt-pkg, see apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc in the
apt source):
,----
| $ LANG=C sudo aptitude reinstall linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau
| The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
| linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau
| 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 12 not
upgraded.
| Need to get 0 B/6490 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
| E: Internal Error, Pathname to install is not absolute
'linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau_4.5.0-rc6-1_i386.deb'
|
Failed to perform requested operation on package.
Trying to recover:
|
| $ echo $?
| 255
`----
Downgrading aptitude (and aptitude-common) to 0.7.6-1 fixes this.
By the way, here's the apt policy for the package in question:
,----
| $ LANG=C apt-cache policy linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau
| linux-image-4.5.0-rc6-nouveau:
| Installed: 4.5.0-rc6-1
| Candidate: 4.5.0-rc6-1
| Version table:
| *** 4.5.0-rc6-1 500
| 500 file:/usr/local/var/apt debs/ Packages
| 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
`----
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: eterm-color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.7
Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160224
Compiled against:
apt version 5.0.0
NCurses version 6.0
libsigc++ version: 2.6.2
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160213
cwidget version: 0.5.17
Apt version: 5.0.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7767000)
libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0
(0xf71e5000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xf71b0000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xf718b000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0xf7184000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xf7081000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xf6f9f000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0xf6f86000)
libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0xf6f6c000)
libboost_system.so.1.58.0 =>
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0xf6f67000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sse2/libxapian.so.22
(0xf6d5d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
(0xf6d40000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf6bd0000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf6b82000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf6b65000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf69ad000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xf69a9000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf69a4000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2
(0xf698b000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xf696e000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xf695b000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xf6932000)
liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0xf691f000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xf6915000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xf690f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x56652000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.8-ckt4-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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 0.7.7-1
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.4
ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii libc6 2.21-9
ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1
ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-10
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160213-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.11.0-2
ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-10
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160213-1
ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.7-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8
ii sensible-utils 0.0.9
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.47+nmu2
pn debtags <none>
ii tasksel 3.34
-- no debconf information
