Package: apt-show-versions
Version: 0.22.7
Severity: important
When querying uninstalled packages, "apt-show-versions" fails with the
error message "Use of uninitialized value $arch":
# apt-show-versions -a linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64 linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64
linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64:amd64 4.13.13-1 install ok installed
No stable version
No stable-updates version
linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64:amd64 4.13.13-1 testing ftp.us.debian.org
linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64:amd64 4.13.13-1 unstable ftp.us.debian.org
No experimental version
linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64:amd64/testing 4.13.13-1 uptodate
Use of uninitialized value $arch in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 370.
Use of uninitialized value $arch in hash element at
/usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 373.
Use of uninitialized value $arch in hash element at
/usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 385.
No stable version
No stable-updates version
No testing version
No unstable version
No experimental version
linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64: not installed
(This output would be easier to read if the program would insert a blank
line between the sections for different packages.)
However, if you restrict the query to a single package, it miraculously
starts working:
# apt-show-versions -a linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64
No stable version
No stable-updates version
No testing version
linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64:amd64 4.14.2-1 unstable ftp.us.debian.org
No experimental version
linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64:amd64 not installed
This bug has persisted for a long time, although various other bug
reports regarding it have previously been opened, and then closed, for
some reason.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=715314
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725107
"apt-show-versions" still doesn't know its own version number:
# apt-show-versions -V
Apt-Show-Versions v.0.22.6 (c) Christoph Martin
# dpkg -s apt-show-versions | grep Version
Version: 0.22.7
You would think that kind of thing could be automated, somehow.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'),
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apt-show-versions depends on:
ii apt 1.6~alpha5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33
ii libperl5.26 [libstorable-perl] 5.26.1-3
ii perl 5.26.1-3
apt-show-versions recommends no packages.
apt-show-versions suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
