On Tue, 21 May 2019 06:02:56 -0400 Boruch Baum wrote: > On 2019-05-20 23:38, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > > > > On Mon, 20 May 2019 03:23:24 -0400 Boruch Baum wrote: > > > > [...] > > > For several upgrade procedures in the course of the recent few weeks, > > > apt-listbugs has repeatedly been prompting me for the same bug (#915689 > > > rng-tools), and doesn't ever seem to update file > > > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs > > > > Hello again Boruch, > > thanks for this second bug report. > > > > First of all, apt-listbugs is not supposed to update > > file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs > > Oops. That file exists, size zero, so the substance of the bug report stands.
Which file?
I guess /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs
Is this the case?
>
> > Secondly, it's not clear to me exactly what you did, when prompted by
> > apt-listbugs.
> > Could you please send (to the bug e-mail address) a transcript of your
> > interaction with apt-listbugs during one of the package upgrades?
>
> serious bugs of rng-tools (2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2 → 5-1) <Outstanding>
> b1 - #915689 - prevent from migrating to testing
> Summary:
> rng-tools(1 bug)
> Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] ?
>
> ... (snip)
>
> Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] p
> The following 1 package will be pinned or on hold:
> rng-tools
> Are you sure? [Y/n]
> rng-tools pinned by adding Pin preferences in
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs. Restart APT session to enable
> Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [N/?/...]
> **********************************************************************
> ****** Exiting with an error in order to stop the installation. ******
> **********************************************************************
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt returned an error code (10)
> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt
> # apt-get -t ceres upgrade
>
> ... (snip)
>
> After this operation, 31.7 kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Retrieving bug reports... Done
> Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
OK, I am beginning to guess what's going on.
By looking at the transcript, I suppose you are using Devuan, is that
correct?
According to the [Devuan release page], ceres is the unstable suite,
but I see that you explicitly selected it in the upgrade command
("apt-get -t ceres upgrade").
[Devuan release page]: <https://devuan.org/os/releases>
I am suspecting that you upgrade by explicitly selecting the unstable
suite (codename "ceres"), but configured the general package pinnings
so that you track another (older) suite by default.
If this is the case, then the daily cron job probably removes the
pin on package rng-tools once a day, since its candidate version
(2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2) is not buggy.
Please send me the output of the following commands, after pinning
package rng-tools:
$ apt-cache policy
$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs
$ apt-cache policy rng-tools
$ apt-cache -o Dir::Etc::PreferencesParts=/dev/null policy rng-tools
Let's see whether my guess is correct...
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