LMDE's apt reports wrong version of packages
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- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- debian
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
Reproduce the report using the backports repository configuration, apt install emacs --update, and the reported emacs --version check. Investigate why apt's selected package version differs from the installed executable; done means identifying a reproducible cause and documenting or fixing the mismatch with a verification case.
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Description
Hi,
I needed to access Emacs 29.4, so I've activated the "backports" repos for Bookworm in LMDE, following this tutorial:
https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-backports-experimental-repository-on-debian/
Since I was used of using standard Mint & Ubuntu, and I didn't notice the final remark, saying that you need to use "-t bookworm-backports" flags to apt to specifically install/configure packages from backports, I started using "apt" the "usual way" (no flags) after configuring the additional repos.
I was very surprised to observe that apt is totally wrong about what it does!!!
# apt install emacs --update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
emacs is already the newest version (1:29.4+1-4~bpo12+1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ emacs --version
emacsclient 28.2
Even when purging and reinstalling Emacs, apt reports installing version 29.4, whereas it is still version 28.2 that gets installed!!!!
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