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  1. Bug #1872200
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Activity log for bug #1872200

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2020-04-11 14:39:15 Torsten Bronger bug added bug
2020-04-17 23:30:28 Launchpad Janitor apt (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2020-04-17 23:30:45 Gunnar Hjalmarsson bug added subscriber Gunnar Hjalmarsson
2020-04-17 23:31:02 Gunnar Hjalmarsson bug added subscriber Doug Smythies
2020-05-04 13:45:08 Julian Andres Klode apt (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Fix Committed
2020-05-05 10:26:28 Julian Andres Klode description Observed with Ubuntu 20.04 Beta. apt remove 'mypackage*' does not remove all installed packages starting with “mypackage”. Instead: $ sudo apt remove 'mypackage*' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package mypackage* However: $ sudo apt list --installed 'mypackage*' Listing... Done mypackage-data-v1/focal,focal,now 0.3.2-5build1 all [installed,automatic] mypackage1/focal,now 0.3.2-5build1 amd64 [installed] [Impact] Users can't use * wildcards anymore in focal, except by accident in apt list. For apt list, we now start restricting wildcard syntax to the same syntax install now accepts, and at the same time we remove the restrictions on which patterns are accepted (which only accepted patterns starting in ~ or ?), so !~napt now works, and does not accidentally match as a wildcard. [Test case] Test that * wildcards work for both install and list, and test that a ? wildcard does not. We included autopkgtests for those: #### BEGIN TESTS ##### # * wildcards should still work testsuccessequal "Listing... automatic1/now 1.0 i386 [installed,local] automatic2/now 1.0 i386 [installed,local]" apt list 'automatic*' testfailureequal "Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Note, selecting 'automatic1' for glob 'automatic*' Note, selecting 'automatic2' for glob 'automatic*' automatic1 is already the newest version (1.0). automatic1 set to manually installed. automatic2 is already the newest version (1.0). automatic2 set to manually installed. You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: broken : Depends: does-not-exist but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution)." apt install -s 'automatic*' # other wildcards should fail testfailureequal "Listing... E: input:0-10: error: Expected pattern automatic? ^^^^^^^^^^" apt list 'automatic?' testfailureequal "Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... E: Unable to locate package automatic?" apt install -s 'automatic?' #### END TESTS ##### Also it might be worth checking that apt list !~napt works. This used to produce an empty list, as it was accidentally matched as a wildcard and produced no result - now it produces every package whose name does not contain "apt". [Regression potential] The changes only affect interactive users, as apt(8) is not stable for in-script use, hence they can fix up their command-line if it stops working for them (though, really, more should work now). No scripts will be broken :) [Squashed in changes] The SRU also fixes potential build failures by correctly prefxing nullptr_t with the std:: namespace, and includes updated Dutch documentation. [Original bug report] Observed with Ubuntu 20.04 Beta. apt remove 'mypackage*' does not remove all installed packages starting with “mypackage”. Instead: $ sudo apt remove 'mypackage*' Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package mypackage* However: $ sudo apt list --installed 'mypackage*' Listing... Done mypackage-data-v1/focal,focal,now 0.3.2-5build1 all [installed,automatic] mypackage1/focal,now 0.3.2-5build1 amd64 [installed]
2020-05-05 10:28:54 Julian Andres Klode nominated for series Ubuntu Groovy
2020-05-05 10:28:54 Julian Andres Klode bug task added apt (Ubuntu Groovy)
2020-05-05 10:28:54 Julian Andres Klode nominated for series Ubuntu Focal
2020-05-05 10:28:54 Julian Andres Klode bug task added apt (Ubuntu Focal)
2020-05-05 10:29:00 Julian Andres Klode apt (Ubuntu Focal): status New Triaged
2020-05-12 10:15:14 Launchpad Janitor apt (Ubuntu Groovy): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2020-05-12 18:09:10 Brian Murray apt (Ubuntu Focal): status Triaged Fix Committed
2020-05-12 18:09:12 Brian Murray bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2020-05-12 18:09:17 Brian Murray bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2020-05-12 18:09:22 Brian Murray tags verification-needed verification-needed-focal
2020-05-12 21:50:33 Doug Smythies tags verification-needed verification-needed-focal verification-done-focal verification-needed
2020-05-14 16:51:00 Chris Johnston tags verification-done-focal verification-needed verification-done verification-done-focal
2020-05-14 16:51:07 Chris Johnston bug added subscriber Chris Johnston
2020-05-19 22:47:40 Brian Murray tags verification-done verification-done-focal block-proposed-focal verification-done verification-done-focal
2020-11-06 09:40:45 Łukasz Zemczak apt (Ubuntu Focal): status Fix Committed Won't Fix
2020-11-06 09:40:50 Łukasz Zemczak removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2020-11-06 09:44:17 Julian Andres Klode apt (Ubuntu Focal): status Won't Fix Triaged
2021-01-14 14:34:47 Łukasz Zemczak apt (Ubuntu Focal): status Triaged Fix Committed
2021-01-14 14:34:49 Łukasz Zemczak bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2021-01-14 14:34:55 Łukasz Zemczak tags block-proposed-focal verification-done verification-done-focal block-proposed-focal verification-needed verification-needed-focal
2021-01-19 09:39:37 Julian Andres Klode tags block-proposed-focal verification-needed verification-needed-focal verification-done verification-done-focal
2021-01-21 16:28:42 Łukasz Zemczak removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2021-01-21 16:38:46 Launchpad Janitor apt (Ubuntu Focal): status Fix Committed Fix Released