Hi, i don't know what live-helper does, how it uses APT nor anything else which could be useful to reproduce this here so for a few steps to reproduce it would be fabulous - bonus points if it involves only calling APT and not live-helper…
(and maybe the difference between the produced call if --apt apt is given compared to not…) APT version used would be interesting for example, too. > On irc twb suggested that this is because the tool used by live-helper > to install packages by default eats the trailing + and that apt in sid > has this functionality as well so this will break completely in the > future. APT "eats" since basically ever - and + on remove/purge/install if a package with this name doesn't exist as said by the apt-get manpage at the end of the first paragraph for "install" as this "eating" is interpreted in a default-action changing method, so apt-get install g++ , apt-get install g+++ and apt-get remove g+++ do all the same thing. What is true is that in the version in sid and soon-to-be testing the code for parsing of the commandline was changed a lot, so yes, in theory we could have introduced a bug with it, but for this the commandline triggering this bug would be interesting… The obvious example with g++ (as APT is written in c++) at least works as expected with apt 0.8.0 … (i am not completely sure, but one experimental release was broken in this way if i remember correctly). Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
