Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.4-4
The package 'aptitude' provide cron script /etc/cron.daily/aptitude
which uses cmp(). The executable cmp() is provided by package
'diff'. The dependency of 'aptitude' on 'diff' is not listed in the
Debian control file for 'aptitude'.
$ more /etc/cron.daily/aptitude | grep 'cmp'
if ! cmp -s aptitude.pkgstates.0 /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates ; then
$ dpkg -S /etc/cron.daily/aptitude
aptitude: /etc/cron.daily/aptitude
$ apt-cache depends aptitude
aptitude
Depends: <libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11>
apt
Depends: libc6
Depends: libgcc1
Depends: libncursesw5
Depends: libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
Depends: libstdc++6
Suggests: tasksel
Suggests: debtags
|Recommends: aptitude-doc-en
Recommends: <aptitude-doc>
aptitude-doc-cs
aptitude-doc-en
aptitude-doc-fi
aptitude-doc-fr
Recommends: libparse-debianchangelog-perl
I suggest including package 'diff' among the packages upon which
'aptitude' depends or removing the use of executable cmp() in
/etc/cron.daily/aptitude.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux 4.1.1-21, kernel
linux-image-2.6.18-5-686, and libc6 version 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2.
- Amos Statter
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