#1038857 apt-utils: installed but aptitude claims not installed.

Package:
apt-utils
Source:
apt-utils
Description:
package management related utility programs
Submitter:
Date:
2023-06-25 13:45:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1038857#5
Date:
2023-06-22 02:50:33 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
   I used aptitude to update the system.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
   Aptitude was OK but reported this.
   debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   Given that apt-utils is installed, puzzlement.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   With apt-utils installed it should work as intended rather than cause
   a report of absence.
#1038857#10
Date:
2023-06-22 15:11:04 UTC
From:
To:
Control: reassign -1 debconf

Was apt-utils part of that upgrade or was it even newly installed?
You can get that info after the fact from /var/log/apt/history.log

The message is not from aptitude, nor from apt-utils, it is from
debconf as the prefix indicates, but no worries, as that is hard to
know if you don't know how they all interact. It "just" means
that we can't leave the bugreport against apt-utils as it wasn't
really involved.

I am therefore reassigning to debconf as they might know what might
have lead to this message provided you can give some further details
about your situation.

Note that as the message says the configuration is "delayed" as in
happening in-place rather than upfront, so at least this is not
dangerous and you don't miss anything, just puzzling.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies
#1038857#19
Date:
2023-06-25 08:53:33 UTC
From:
To:
Agreed, this would be good to check.

The specific check here is whether the apt-extracttemplates program is
found on $PATH.  What does "command -v apt-extracttemplates" say?
#1038857#24
Date:
2023-06-25 13:15:53 UTC
From:
To:
Not mentioned in /var/log/apt/history.log.

From:	Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date:	Sun, 25 Jun 2023 09:53:33 +0100
/usr/bin/apt-extracttemplates

I haven't associated a harm with the claim of absence of apt-utils.
Somewhat odd that no other users have caught the same message.

Thanks for taking an interest in my report.  Maybe not worth attention
for now. Sometimes an explanation turns up unexpectedly.

                 ... P.

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