Danilo Piazzalunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Package: apt
> Followup-For: Bug #173257
>
> I saw that, recently, bug reports about this behaviour have been
> reported multiple times. After reading #167899 and #186671 that this has
> never been considered a bug, but I don't know why.
>
> I too ran into this behaviour, and I would appreciate if you could
> explain (or direct me to some explanation, which I wasn't able to find)
> why this is not considered a bug.
>
> Kind thanks,
> Danilo
If I remember correctly some years ago some package got fixed by
uploading the same version again and apt had to reinstall the same but
changed version again to get rid of the buggy package.
I think everybody agrees that that was a very bad thing to do but it
looks like support for this case is the cause for apt reinstalling a
package.
Now why does it happen again and again? From what I figured out the
reason why it does it over and over again is that the caching
algorithm does NOT support this reinstalling of the same but different
version. It happily gives apt the old cached version while apt wants
the new version downloaded. So apt wants the new deb, gets the old
deb, installs the old deb, and repeats.
If you run into this case or can reproduce it please do:
apt-get clean; apt-get upgrade; apt-get upgrade
Does the problem go away then? If so then you hit the same problem I
saw.
MfG
Goswin
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