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aptitude package

aptitude search tells lies

Bug #890510 reported by Alex Wauck
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #884945: aptitude show wrong package state. Edit Remove
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aptitude (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

$ aptitude search canberra
<snip>
p libcanberra-gtk3-0 - Gtk+ 3.0 helper for playing widget event sounds with libcanberra
<snip>

$ aptitude show libcanberra-gtk3-0
Package: libcanberra-gtk3-0
New: yes
State: installed
<snip>

Huh? Is the package installed or not? This also confuses zsh's tab completion.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: aptitude 0.6.4-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 14 19:46:43 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: aptitude
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alex Wauck (awauck) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Tobias (ulbricht-tobias) wrote :

I marked this as a duplicate of another bug which has more output/examples and
btw. it seems to depend on what the search term is:

aptitude search libcanberra-gtk3-0
i A libcanberra-gtk3-0

works fine.

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