* Yuriy Darnobyt [Mon Jan 12, 2026 at 01:49:04PM +0000]: > It happens we put package version also in the 'Description' field. > And we noticed that when we list all available versions > (via 'apt show openvpn-as -a' ) the Description is always the same. > This is easy to track by comparing versions in the Description field in > 'openvpn-as' package. All of them will have '3.0.1-84b60e70-Debian13' > (which is not the latest btw). > > This issue is also reproducible on Ubuntu 24.04 with the apt version > 2.8.3. > But it is not reproducible on older distributives, like Debian 12 or > Ubuntu 22.04 > > Steps to reproduce: > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt -y -qq install ca-certificates wget > net-tools gnupg > mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings > wget https://packages.openvpn.net/as-repo-public.asc -qO > /etc/apt/keyrings/as-repository.asc > uname -m > echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/as-repository.asc] > http://packages.openvpn.net/as/debian trixie main" > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-as-repo.list > apt update > apt show openvpn-as -a
I also stumbled upon this, with apt v3.0.3 on trixie, because a transitional package wasn't displayed as such, given the wrong package description showed up. It's not only about apt, also apt-cache is broken. Further STR: podman run --pull=always --rm -i -t -v $(pwd)/:/code:rw debian:trixie bash apt --update -y install grml-keyring ln -s /usr/share/grml-keyring/grml.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ apt update apt-cache show grml-scripts # displays unexpected package description sed -i 's/Suites: grml-stable grml-testing/Suites: grml-testing/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.sources apt-cache show grml-scripts # only now displays the expected package description, as only the newest grml-scripts package version is available then Proper output would be: # apt-cache show grml-scripts | grep Description: Description: transitional package Description: Collection of little tools While we get: # apt-cache show grml-scripts | grep Description: Description: Collection of little tools Description: Collection of little tools Same behavior also with apt v3.1.16 as present in current testing/unstable. regards -mika-
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