[Bug 1465814] Re: Apt did the opposite of what I told it to do when it asked me a yes or no question

[Paul White]

Reporter no longer uses Launchpad so cannot establish if still an issue
Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016
Issue never confirmed by another user
Closing by changing status to "Invalid"


** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Apt did the opposite of what I told it to do when it asked me a yes or
  no question

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Invalid
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Today I executed the command:

      sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

  And this was the output:

      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      Calculating upgrade... Done
      The following packages will be upgraded:
        aptdaemon aptdaemon-data python-aptdaemon python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets
        python3-aptdaemon python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat
        wpasupplicant
      8 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
      Need to get 1,146 kB of archives.
      After this operation, 3,072 B of additional disk space will be used.
      Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

  So I answered 'y' (without the quotes), and this was the output:

      Abort.

  And it seemingly aborted instead of doing what I said, although when I
  ran the command again, it installed the upgrades instead of aborting,
  but I just thought that I should report this as it seemed buggy as
  this is not what it is meant to do.

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  OS Information:

      Description:	Ubuntu 15.04
      Release:	15.04

  Package Information (I got this information after upgrading those
  packages, and the error occurred before the upgrade, so the version it
  occurred on might have been the previous to this):

      apt:
        Installed: 1.0.9.7ubuntu4
        Candidate: 1.0.9.7ubuntu4
        Version table:
       *** 1.0.9.7ubuntu4 0
              500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
              100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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