[Aptitude-devel] Bug#686626: Bug#686626: found 686626 in aptitude/0.6.8.1-1, found 686346 in apt/0.9.7.4

Daniel Hartwig mandyke at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 01:09:04 BST 2012


On 9 September 2012 08:05, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 September 2012 08:03, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 minor
>>
>> On 9 September 2012 04:13, Francesco Poli <invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
>>> The rationale behind my question is instead the following doubt: what
>>> if I pin aptitude to version 0.6.8-1? Is it useful to avoid being hit
>>> by this bug or is it totally useless?
>>
>> Technically yes, this was introduced in 0.6.8.1-1 by the fix for
>> #680333 (a similar bug which has much greater impact).  Do upgrade.
>
> By “yes” I mean: yes, this is useless to avoid :-)

Too early in the day (!) and too many statements in your original question.

Staying at 0.6.8-1 is technically useful to avoid *this* bug.  But it
is practically useless, because the situation with 0.6.8.1-1 is better
than with the earlier version.

Upgrade.

Regards



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