Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
There seems to be a bad interaction between 'aptitude' and 'debtags'. When searching using the ?tag search term, aptitude cannot find packages whose candidate version is in the security repository. For example: $ apt policy libc6 debtags libc6: Installed: 2.36-9+deb12u4 Candidate: 2.36-9+deb12u4 Version table: *** 2.36-9+deb12u4 500 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.36-9+deb12u3 500 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages debtags: Installed: 2.1.5 Candidate: 2.1.5 Version table: *** 2.1.5 500 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ aptitude search "?name(^libc6$)?tag(^role::shared-lib$)"; echo $? 1 Deinstalling 'debtags' solves the problem: $ apt policy libc6 debtags libc6: Installed: 2.36-9+deb12u4 Candidate: 2.36-9+deb12u4 Version table: *** 2.36-9+deb12u4 500 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.36-9+deb12u3 500 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages debtags: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.1.5 Version table: 2.1.5 500 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages $ aptitude -F "%p" search "?name(^libc6$)?tag(^role::shared-lib$)"; echo $? libc6 0 Best Regards -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.13 Compiler: g++ 12.1.0 Compiled against: apt version 6.0.0 NCurses version 6.3 libsigc++ version: 2.10.8 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.4.20221231 cwidget version: 0.5.18 Apt version: 6.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe117d0000) libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0 (0x00007f2720605000) libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f27205cb000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f2720598000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f2720c29000) libcwidget.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4 (0x00007f27204a6000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f2720347000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.74.0 (0x00007f272032f000) libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f2720000000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f2720c22000) libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f271fc00000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f2720250000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f271ffe0000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f271fa1f000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f2720231000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f271ffcd000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f271ff9e000) liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f271ff78000) libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f271febc000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f271fe8e000) libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f271f94f000) libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f271f808000) libxxhash.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0 (0x00007f271fe79000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2720c48000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f271fe6f000) libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007f271fe63000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f271fe3b000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.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 0.8.13-5 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.6.1 ii libboost-iostreams1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-21 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u4 ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-6 ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14 ii libncursesw6 6.4-4 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.40.1-2 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii libtinfo6 6.4-4 ii libxapian30 1.4.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22 ii sensible-utils 0.0.17+nmu1 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> ii debtags 2.1.5 ii tasksel 3.73 -- no debconf information