On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:18:44 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > Why do I get different results from the ones you get?!? > Why?!? > > What's wrong with my system?
I performed some other checks in order to understand what's going on.
I think I found what's wrong with aptcleanup.
IIUC, aptcleanup parses /etc/apt/preferences and creates a list of
pinned packages.
Then aptcleanup queries the BTS (by invoking apt-listbugs on the list of
pinned packages) in order to see whether the currently pinned packages
have RC bugs. Finally, aptcleanup compares the list of currently pinned
packages with the list of RC-buggy pinned packages and spits out a new
preferences file which only pins RC-buggy packages.
OK, assuming that the above is correct, the list of pinned packages is
"fontconfig apt" on my system.
Let's query the BTS by hand:
# /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs -y -q list fontconfig apt
grave bugs of fontconfig (2.4.2-1.2 -> ) <done>
#446124 - ttf-opensymbols: fails to install on etch (Fixed: fontconfig/2.5.0-1)
serious bugs of fontconfig (2.4.2-1.2 -> ) <done>
#402014 - defoma, fontconfig: integration is broken, brokes updates of font
packages (Fixed: fontconfig/2.5.0-1)
grave bugs of apt (0.7.9 -> ) <pending>
#474947 - MMap, again; and won't be denied this time
#465241 - bibtex2html has been installed with an unmet dependency
Summary:
apt(2 bugs), fontconfig(2 bugs)
The problem is: aptcleanup looks at the last line
apt(2 bugs), fontconfig(2 bugs)
and concludes that fontconfig is still RC-buggy.
But this is wrong, since the *currently installed* version
(fontconfig/2.4.2-1.2) is RC-buggy, while the version that *would* be
installed without the pinning (fontconfig/2.5.0-2) is fixed!
$ apt-cache policy fontconfig
fontconfig:
Installed: 2.4.2-1.2
Candidate: 2.4.2-1.2
Package pin: 2.4.2-1.2
Version table:
2.5.0-2 1000
500 http://mir2.ovh.net testing/main Packages
500 http://debian.intergenia.de testing/main Packages
*** 2.4.2-1.2 1000
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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