Control: reassign -1 apt I can confirm the behaviour, but I just could find a cause, it looks like some misbehaviour in apt, since everything looks normal. Checksums are OK, the cache is OK, but it just behaves weird.
I am reassigning this to apt. More symptoms: 1. double listing of the package in apt-cache show output # apt-cache show libjpeg-dev Package: libjpeg-dev Source: libjpeg-turbo Version: 1:1.3.1-3 Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Debian TigerVNC Packaging Team <pkg-tigervnc-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: libjpeg62-dev (>= 1:1.3.1-3) Conflicts: libjpeg62-dev (<< 0:1.3.1-1~), libjpeg7-dev, libjpeg8-dev Description-en: Development files for the JPEG library [dummy package] This package depends on default Debian implementation of libjpeg.so.62 JPEG library. Description-md5: 169b0708f8d540a76b8b0c5710c4ebb6 Homepage: http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/ Section: libdevel Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/libj/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-dev_1.3.1-3_all.deb Size: 48318 MD5sum: c1532ef2ac175bd33d531fed7e373918 SHA1: 4fe33e26c8171630f5a144b630e6e4bbc0ae3551 SHA256: 27e9092e7ab784f298ef2dd231a972daac1f7d89a78f9c3edb18f9624fc230f6 Package: libjpeg-dev Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Debian TigerVNC Packaging Team <pkg-tigervnc-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Source: libjpeg-turbo Version: 1:1.3.1-3 Depends: libjpeg62-dev (>= 1:1.3.1-3) Conflicts: libjpeg62-dev (<< 1.3.1-1~), libjpeg7-dev, libjpeg8-dev Description-en: Development files for the JPEG library [dummy package] This package depends on default Debian implementation of libjpeg.so.62 JPEG library. Description-md5: 169b0708f8d540a76b8b0c5710c4ebb6 Homepage: http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/ 2. Same for apt-cache policy # apt-cache policy libjpeg-dev libjpeg-dev: Installed: 1:1.3.1-3 Candidate: 1:1.3.1-3 Version table: 1:1.3.1-3 0 500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages *** 1:1.3.1-3 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3. Reinstalling over and over: root@kage:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install libjpeg-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: libjpeg-dev 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/48,3 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 214068 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libjpeg-dev_1%3a1.3.1-3_all.deb ... Unpacking libjpeg-dev (1:1.3.1-3) over (1:1.3.1-3) ... root@kage:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install libjpeg-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: libjpeg-dev 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/48,3 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 214068 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libjpeg-dev_1%3a1.3.1-3_all.deb ... Unpacking libjpeg-dev (1:1.3.1-3) over (1:1.3.1-3) ... Cheers, Ondrej On Tue, Sep 30, 2014, at 03:29, ian_br...@mail.ru wrote: > Package: libjpeg-dev > Version: 1:1.3.1-3 > > Surely there is something wrong with this. > > This can be repeated indefinitely; there's something wrong with the > version checking. > > It would be nice if somebody would fix reportbug, so we could use that > again. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758619 > > > # apt-get install libjpeg-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > libjpeg-dev > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 876 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B/48.3 kB of archives. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > Reading changelogs... Done > (Reading database ... 233968 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to unpack .../libjpeg-dev_1%3a1.3.1-3_all.deb ... > Unpacking libjpeg-dev (1:1.3.1-3) over (1:1.3.1-3) ... > -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org