Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.7-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
when using aptitude to browse packages on the arm64 platform, the "description" area in the lower half of the screen doesn't display any descriptions, just the homepage and tags. On my i386 machines it displays the descriptions but neither tags nor homepage (which I don't need). I've copied my /etc/apt directory 1:1 from the i386 to the arm machine, but aptitude keeps behaving differently. $HOME/.aptitude/config are identical on both machines -- Package-specific info: Terminal: rxvt-unicode $DISPLAY not set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.7 Compiler: g++ 6.3.0 20170415 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.1 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20161126 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.1 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x0000007f9e957000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x0000007f9e39b000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x0000007f9e361000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x0000007f9e328000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x0000007f9e311000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x0000007f9e20a000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x0000007f9e113000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x0000007f9e0ea000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x0000007f9e0c1000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x0000007f9e0ad000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x0000007f9de99000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000007f9de6d000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000007f9dcdc000) libm.so.6 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x0000007f9dc2f000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000007f9dc0d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x0000007f9dac3000) /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 (0x0000007f9e92d000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x0000007f9dab0000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x0000007f9da8b000) libz.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x0000007f9da63000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x0000007f9da41000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x0000007f9da10000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x0000007f9d9f1000) librt.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x0000007f9d9da000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x0000007f9d9c5000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.4.174-rockchip64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.7-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4.9 ii libboost-filesystem1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-5+deb9u1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 ii libxapian30 1.4.3-2+deb9u3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.9+deb9u1 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.39 -- Configuration Files: /etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed: /var/log.hdd/aptitude { rotate 6 monthly compress missingok notifempty } -- no debconf information