On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 02:40:44AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.8.12-3 > Severity: normal > > I use %i to show me in the aptitude package list which packages I have > pinned and which not. > > Since at least 0.8.12-3 (maybe also 0.8.12-2, didn't check), i.e. the > patches for APT 2.0 (or linking against APT 1.9/2.0) this no more works > and even shows for pinned packages just "(pinning not available)". > > Example setting from /root/.aptitude/config: > > aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M%Si %p %r %9Z %8I %15v# %15V#"; > > Not sure if this is related to 1.9.11's > > * policy: Implement pinning by source package (Closes: #166032) > > as this seems to have no direct relation as just potentially affecting > source packages. But maybe this caused some unintended collateral > damage? > > Julian: Can you please comment if this is a expected change which > requires changes in aptitude or some unintended changes which needs > fixing in apt? (And if the latter is the case, maybe reassigning the bug > report and setting a proper "affects". TIA! :-)
See https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/aptitude/-/commit/34b4a391d41f8c59581662956712c26590d8665a APT 1.1 replaced per-package pins by per-version pins, but still caculated the old pins and provided the A{B,P}I to access them, despite not using them anymore. This has been removed in apt 1.9. It's not clear what you'd want to show here, given that a pin applies to a version and not a package these days. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
