Bug#405907: aptitude: Bus error on sparc if a package on cmdline does not exist

2014-02-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo (Axel: adding you explicitly because you have sparc machines around still in good working order and on-line, IIRC). Can somebody please confirm if this still happens in more recent versions? It's 7 years later, I think that such a basic problem must have been fixed in

Bug#405907: aptitude: Bus error on sparc if a package on cmdline does not exist

2007-01-07 Thread Tim Connors
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-1 Severity: normal Installing packages on the cmdline fails with a buserror when one of the provided packages does not exist. penrose:/var/lib/apt/lists# aptitude install xterm not_exists Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading exten