Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2
Severity: minor
Hello,
something strange is going on with apt-get:
=====
gismo:/etc# apt-get install qemubuilder
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
bochsbios openhackware openbios-ppc openbios-sparc vgabios \
esound-common libasyncns0 proll libpulse0 libesd-alsa0 libbluetooth2 \
libvdeplug2 libaudiofile0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
bochsbios bridge-utils debootstrap esound-common kvm libasyncns0
libaudiofile0 libbluetooth2 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libesd-alsa0 libpulse0 \
libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsvga1 libvdeplug2 libx86-1 \
openbios-ppc openbios-sparc openhackware proll vgabios
Suggested packages:
vde2 samba kvm-source esound pulseaudio qemu
Recommended packages:
esound-clients
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bochsbios bridge-utils debootstrap esound-common kvm libasyncns0 \
libaudiofile0 libbluetooth2 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libesd-alsa0 libpulse0 \
libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsvga1 libvdeplug2 libx86-1 \
openbios-ppc openbios-sparc openhackware proll qemubuilder vgabios
0 upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 4431kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C
gismo:/etc#
=====
FYI, the single package listed as not fully installed or removed is
slime, because of bug #518021 [1] (full output at bug #519455 [2]).
Going back to the real bug, according to apt-get, I can remove a bunch
of packages which are no longer required. Unfortunately, these packages
are not even installed:
=====
gismo:/etc# dpkg -s bochsbios
Package `bochsbios' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
gismo:/etc# dpkg -s openbios-ppc
Package `openbios-ppc' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
gismo:/etc# dpkg -s proll
Package `proll' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
gismo:/etc#
=====
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
Footnotes:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/518021
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/519455
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "none";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "88388604";
APT::Default-Release "unstable";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke "";
DPkg::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
RPM "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke "";
RPM::Pre-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi";
RPM::Post-Invoke "";
RPM::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper post-install; fi";
Acquire "";
Acquire::PDiffs "false";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (no /etc/apt/sources.list present) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
pn aptitude | synaptic | gnome-a <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.8 Python interface to libapt-pkg
-- no debconf information
Acknowledgement sent
to The Wanderer <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to APT Development Team <[email protected]>.
(Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:06:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: apt-get proposes to autoremove packages not yet installed
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 21:02:46 -0400
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I'm seeing what looks like a somwhat less severe version of this same
behavior.
As it stands, I have no packages listed as candidates for autoremoval:
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root@apologia:~# apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 104 not upgraded.
========
Attempting to dist-upgrade results in candidates listed for autoremoval,
all but one of which are also listed as candidates for new-package
installation:
========
root@apologia:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
librtmp0:i386 libzita-alsa-pcmi0 libzita-resampler1 uuid-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gir1.2-atspi-2.0 libatspi2.0-dev librtmp1 librtmp1:i386
libsdl-gfx1.2-5 libzita-alsa-pcmi0 libzita-resampler1 nettle-dev
startpar uuid-dev
========
Something is screwy somewhere, though I'm not completely clear on
whether it's necessarily in apt or whether it might be in the dependency
constellation of some other package(s).
I'll hold off on completing this upgrade for a few days, in case this
gets any attention and there's anything useful to be discovered from my
system configuration.
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Acknowledgement sent
to The Wanderer <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to APT Development Team <[email protected]>.
(Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:09:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: Re: apt-get proposes to autoremove packages not yet installed
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:07:08 -0400
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It looks like this happens when:
* One version of a package is installed.
* A newer version of that package is available from the repositories.
* The newer version depends on a package which the currently-installed
version does not.
* The new-dependency package is not currently installed.
* The original package is for some reason marked as "kept back" by the
dist-upgrade logic, and so will not actually be upgraded.
In this circumstance, apt-get incorrectly selects the new dependency for
installation as a new package by dist-upgrade, even though the package
version that depends on it is not actually going to be installed. It
then correctly lists the newly installed package for autoremoval,
because nothing that's actually installed depends on it.
Here's the details of my case, from which I came to this conclusion:
I run an amd64 system, with i386 enabled on multiarch.
jackd1, libjack0, libjack0:i386, and libjack-dev are installed on my
system.
Both libjack-dev and jackd1 depend on libjack0.
The newest available version of jackd1 adds a dependency on
libzita-alsa-pcmi0 and libzita-resampler1, and the newest version of
libjack-dev adds a dependency on uuid-dev. None of those three packages
are currently installed.
Due to bug 740708, the current testing version of libjack0 is not
coinstallable with the current testing version of libjack0:i386.
As a result, libjack0 is "kept back" on dist-upgrade, causing
libjack-dev and jackd1 to also be kept back.
However, the new dependencies of those packages are still selected for
installation by dist-upgrade.
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