[Bug 71378] Re: aptitude does not tell that a package is already the newest

[Paul White]

Upstream bug merged with #421469 and fixed in aptitude 0.7.1-1
Checked ok Ubuntu 18.04 and aptitude 0.8.10
Closing by marking "Fix Released"


** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  aptitude does not tell that a package is already the newest

Status in aptitude package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in aptitude package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  it is not really a bug, but it is annoying.

  <code> # aptitude install xpdf-utils
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Reading extended state information       
  Initialising package states... Done
  Building tag database... Done      
  No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
  0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
  Writing extended state information... Done </code>

  it tells me that it will NOTHING do:
  <code>No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.</code>
  that is okay, but i would like to know why it does not do anything. and i want to know it i have the newest available version.

  <i>apt-get</i> told me, that the installed version is already the
  newest version. why can not <i>aptitude</i> do so?

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