Comment 1 for bug 25245

Message-id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:22:20 -0500
From: Joe Mason <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates not created on new install

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.0-2
Severity: normal

After managing my system with apt-get for ages, including upgrading from
oldstable to unstable, I finally installed aptitutde and got this error
when I first tried to install something:

E: failed to rename /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates to
/var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.old - save_selection_list (2 No such file or
directory)

Easy to work around - just touch /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates - but the
package install should create this file if it doesn't exist.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.42.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-3 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.16-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)

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