Control: tag -1 + patch
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 06:56:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Package: apt-show-versions
> Version: 0.17
> Severity: important
>
> Hi.
>
> On my system, apt-show-versions started complaining with the message:
>
> Error: No information about packages! (Maybe no deb entries?)
>
> Of course, I do have deb entries in my system. Reading the source code, I
> saw that there was this snippet of code:
>
> ,----
> | @files = map { $list_dir . $_} grep /Packages$/, readdir(DIR);
> `----
>
> right there in the initialization of the cache. Since my system only has
> gzipped files as shown by "ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages*",
> apt-show-versions goes on to say that it found no informations about the
> packages, but the files are there, only gzipped (that is, ending with
> Packages.gz extension, instead of only Packages).Dear maintainer, The attached patch fixes this issue. It has also been submitted as a merge request on salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/apt-show-versions/-/merge_requests/3 I am uploading a fix to DELAYED/15, feel free to just override it with an upload of your own.
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