[Aptitude-devel] Bug#705860: aptitude: removed (from release) package does not appear in list "obsolete ... packages"

[Paul Muster]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainers,

the system has been upgraded from Squeeze/Stable to Wheezy/Testing some time before
Wheezy-Release. Owncloud was available and I installed it. Then owncloud was removed from Wheezy.

Even after apt-get update (and aptitude update) owncloud still not appears
in the list "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages".

# aptitude versions owncloud
Package owncloud:                        
p   4.0.4debian2-3.3	testing-proposed-updates        500 
i   4.0.8debian-1.6					100 

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb     http://debian:9999/debian/ wheezy main 
deb     http://debian:9999/debian-security/ wheezy/updates main 
deb     http://debian:9999/debian wheezy-updates main 
deb     http://debian:9999/debian wheezy-proposed-updates main 

I got no information, that the installed package has been removed from
Wheezy.
Furthermore no information, that there will be no security updates for
owncloud!

Maybe this is only a problem in understanding on my side. But maybe there is
a conceptual problem which leads to security risks.


Thanks & kind regards,

Paul

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov  5 2012 06:20:41
Compiler: g++ 4.7.2
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7710000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb71a7000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7174000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7154000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb714e000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb704e000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb6fbb000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6dd2000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6db9000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6d07000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6cf0000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/nosegneg/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6cd6000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6bea000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/nosegneg/libm.so.6 (0xb6bc4000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6ba6000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6 (0xb6a40000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/nosegneg/libutil.so.1 (0xb6a3c000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/nosegneg/libdl.so.2 (0xb6a38000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6a27000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6a20000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/nosegneg/librt.so.1 (0xb6a17000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7711000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.2-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.8
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.2
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  apt-xapian-index                <none>
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc  <none>
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   <none>
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  debtags  <none>
ii  tasksel  3.14+nmu2

-- no debconf information