Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5+b1
Severity: normal
Steps to reproduce:
- Create fresh sid system
- Type "aptitude install debhelper-compat"
The command will fail with the following absolutely absurd message:
# aptitude install debhelper-compat
"debhelper-compat" is a virtual package provided by:
debhelper debhelper debhelper debhelper debhelper
You must choose one to install.
Unable to apply some actions, aborting
apt works correctly
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.8.13
Compiler: g++ 13.2.0
Compiled against:
apt version 6.0.0
NCurses version 6.4
libsigc++ version: 2.12.1
Gtk+ support disabled.
Qt support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 6.4.20240113
cwidget version: 0.5.18
Apt version: 6.0.0
aptitude linkage:
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcf0934000)
libapt-pkg.so.6.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.6.0
(0x00007fb020e00000)
libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6
(0x00007fb020dc6000)
libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6
(0x00007fb020d91000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0
(0x00007fb020d88000)
libcwidget.so.4 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.4
(0x00007fb020c86000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0
(0x00007fb020b14000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.83.0 =>
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.83.0 (0x00007fb020afa000)
libxapian.so.30 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30
(0x00007fb0208c9000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
(0x00007fb020673000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb020594000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
(0x00007fb020570000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb02038c000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb02036d000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0
(0x00007fb02035a000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fb02032a000)
liblz4.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fb020304000)
libzstd.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007fb020243000)
libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007fb02020e000)
libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0
(0x00007fb02012c000)
libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20
(0x00007fb01ffe4000)
libxxhash.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxxhash.so.0
(0x00007fb01ffd1000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb021480000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fb01ffc7000)
libcap.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2 (0x00007fb01ffb9000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0
(0x00007fb01ff90000)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-0.deb9.24-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii aptitude-common 0.8.13-5
ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.7.8
ii libboost-iostreams1.83.0 1.83.0-2+b2
ii libc6 2.37-13
ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-6+b1
ii libgcc-s1 13.2.0-9
ii libncursesw6 6.4+20240113-1
ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.1-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.44.2-1
ii libstdc++6 13.2.0-9
ii libtinfo6 6.4+20240113-1
ii libxapian30 1.4.22-1
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn libdpkg-perl <none>
ii sensible-utils 0.0.20
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn apt-xapian-index <none>
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none>
pn debtags <none>
pn tasksel <none>
-- no debconf information
