[Bug 1697120] Re: artful's apt-file and aptitude complains about Ubuntu sources.list

Sat Oct 21 16:59:50 UTC 2017

Bug exists in Ubuntu 17.10 MATE:

mate1710 at mate1710:~$ sudo apt-get install apt-file 
[sudo] password for mate1710: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libregexp-assemble-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apt-file libregexp-assemble-perl
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 103 kB of archives.
After this operation, 288 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe i386 libregexp-assemble-perl all 0.36-1 [77,5 kB]

mate1710 at mate1710:~$ sudo aptitude update
Hit http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease                                       
Hit http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-backports InRelease                                                           
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease                                                                
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful InRelease
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease [65,4 kB]
Fetched 65,4 kB in 0s (71,9 kB/s)                           
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (main/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (main/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (restricted/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (restricted/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (restricted/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (restricted/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Contents-deb (universe/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Contents-deb (universe/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Packages (multiverse/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Packages (multiverse/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Translations (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Translations (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Contents-deb (multiverse/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Contents-deb (multiverse/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (main/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (main/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (restricted/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (restricted/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (restricted/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Contents-deb (restricted/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:49
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Contents-deb (universe/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Contents-deb (universe/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:51
W: Target Packages (multiverse/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Packages (multiverse/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Translations (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Translations (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Contents-deb (multiverse/Contents-i386) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53
W: Target Contents-deb (multiverse/Contents-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list:53

** Also affects: ubuntu-mate
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Tags added: artful

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Title:
  artful's apt-file and aptitude complains about Ubuntu sources.list

Status in ubuntu-mate:
  New
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apt source package in Zesty:
  Fix Committed
Status in apt package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  apt-file is now difficult to use with about a dozen warnings like this:

  W: Target Contents-deb-legacy (Contents-amd64) is configured multiple
  times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:17

  For reference, this is line 6:
  deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ artful main restricted

  And this is line 17:
  deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ artful universe

  This is how Ubuntu's default sources.list has been structured since
  the beginning? (or at least more than a decade).

  What I expect
  -------------
  The warning isn't specific enough. Lines 6 and 17 are not actually duplicates. The warning could be removed or fixed so that it doesn't complain about non-duplicates.

  Or the warning could be disabled on Ubuntu.

  See also
  --------
  LP: #1579372

  [Test case]
  Install apt-file and update, make sure that the warnings are gone.

  [Regression potential]
  Warnings about duplicate index targets containing "legacy" in their configured name are not shown anymore, thus it's harder to "fix" servers. But apart from that, which was the goal, I don't see any.

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