[Bug 2092635] Re: apt show loops displaying same text multiple times

Wed Jan 1 08:20:21 UTC 2025

Your screenshots all look correct, and 'apt policy gnome*' or other
commands work fine, they print into less, and wait form me to navigate
using arrow keys and quit using the q key. Thats a cool new feature
people have been asking for for years, as they've grown accustomed to it
from git.

Again I'll reiterate, you cannot scroll using the terminal window scroll
bar, that's not going to work.

Have you used a pager before, e.g. piping output to less, like ls |
less? Do you know how to navigate inside it using page up/down, the
arrow keys, and how to quit it?

Have you used git before? Especially git log on a git repository?

Do you understand that apt is now automatically spawning a pager, like
git?

Do you understand that unlike normal use of less, automatic pagers in
git and apt, set FRX to not clear the screen, and keep the output
visible after exiting?

Do you realize that the scroll bar provided by the terminal window does
not work in that scenario but will reproduce the output and interactions
with less, including missing lines, repeated lines, "skipping..." lines?

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Title:
  apt show loops displaying same text multiple times

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Entering 'apt show nautilus' the text about nautilus are repeated many times
  corrado at corrado-n6-pp-1217:~$ apt show nautilus
  Package: nautilus
  Version: 1:47.1-1ubuntu1
  Priority: optional
  Section: gnome
  Origin: Ubuntu
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
  Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
  Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
  Installed-Size: 1,882 kB
  Depends: bubblewrap, desktop-file-utils (>= 0.7), eject, gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.8.0), gvfs (>= 1.3.2), libglib2.0-data, libnautilus-extension4 (= 1:47.1-1ubuntu1), nautilus-data (= 1:47.1-1ubuntu1), shared-mime-info (>= 0.50), tracker (>= 3), tracker-miner-fs (>= 3), tracker-extract (>= 3), xdg-user-dirs-gtk, libadwaita-1-0 (>= 1.6~beta), libc6 (>= 2.38), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbusmenu-glib4 (>= 0.4.2), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libgexiv2-2 (>= 0.14.2), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= 2.80.0), libgnome-autoar-0-0 (>= 0.4.4), libgnome-desktop-4-2t64 (>= 43~), libgraphene-1.0-0 (>= 1.5.4), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgtk-4-1 (>= 4.15.2), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.42), libportal-gtk4-1 (>= 0.7), libportal1 (>= 0.7), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libtracker-sparql-3.0-0 (>= 3.1.1), libunity9 (>= 3.4.6), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libx11-6
  Recommends: gvfs-backends, libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin, librsvg2-common, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
  Suggests: evince | pdf-viewer, gnome-sushi, totem | mp3-decoder
  Breaks: eiciel (<< 0.9.13.1-1.1~), folder-color (<< 0.0.86-0ubuntu5~), gedit (<< 40), nautilus-dropbox (<< 2019.02.14-1ubuntu2~), nautilus-extension-brasero (<< 3.12.3-2), nautilus-extension-burner (<< 3.0.10-1.2), nautilus-extension-gnome-console (<< 43), nautilus-filename-repairer (<< 0.2.0-3.1~), nautilus-font-manager (<< 0.8.8-2), nautilus-gtkhash (<< 1.4+git20220617-2.1~), nautilus-ideviceinfo (<< 0.1.0-0ubuntu15~), nautilus-image-converter (<< 0.3.1~git20110416-2.1~), nautilus-share (<< 0.7.3-2ubuntu7~), nautilus-wipe (<< 0.3.1-2.1~), seahorse-nautilus (<< 3.11.92-4.1~), totem (<< 3.31.91-1), unity (<< 7.5.1+21.10.20210601.1-0ubuntu1)
  :...skipping...
  Package: nautilus
  Version: 1:47.1-1ubuntu1
  Priority: optional
  Section: gnome
  Origin: Ubuntu
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
  Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
  Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
  Installed-Size: 1,882 kB
  Depends: bubblewrap, desktop-file-utils (>= 0.7), eject, gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.8.0), gvfs (>= 1.3.2), libglib2.0-data, libnautilus-extension4 (= 1:47.1-1ubuntu1), nautilus-data (= 1:47.1-1ubuntu1), shared-mime-info (>= 0.50), tracker (>= 3), tracker-miner-fs (>= 3), tracker-extract (>= 3), xdg-user-dirs-gtk, libadwaita-1-0 (>= 1.6~beta), libc6 (>= 2.38), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbusmenu-glib4 (>= 0.4.2), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libgexiv2-2 (>= 0.14.2), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= 2.80.0), libgnome-autoar-0-0 (>= 0.4.4), libgnome-desktop-4-2t64 (>= 43~), libgraphene-1.0-0 (>= 1.5.4), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libgtk-4-1 (>= 4.15.2), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.42), libportal-gtk4-1 (>= 0.7), libportal1 (>= 0.7), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libtracker-sparql-3.0-0 (>= 3.1.1), libunity9 (>= 3.4.6), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libx11-6
  Recommends: gvfs-backends, libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin, librsvg2-common, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
  Suggests: evince | pdf-viewer, gnome-sushi, totem | mp3-decoder
  Breaks: eiciel (<< 0.9.13.1-1.1~), folder-color (<< 0.0.86-0ubuntu5~), gedit (<< 40), nautilus-dropbox (<< 2019.02.14-1ubuntu2~), nautilus-extension-brasero (<< 3.12.3-2), nautilus-extension-burner (<< 3.0.10-1.2), nautilus-extension-gnome-console (<< 43), nautilus-filename-repairer (<< 0.2.0-3.1~), nautilus-font-manager (<< 0.8.8-2), nautilus-gtkhash (<< 1.4+git20220617-2.1~), nautilus-ideviceinfo (<< 0.1.0-0ubuntu15~), nautilus-image-converter (<< 0.3.1~git20110416-2.1~), nautilus-share (<< 0.7.3-2ubuntu7~), nautil

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04
  Package: apt 2.9.18
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.11.0-8.8-generic 6.11.0
  Uname: Linux 6.11.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.31.0-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Dec 28 20:54:54 2024
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-12-17 (11 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" - Daily amd64 (20241217)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   TERM=xterm-256color
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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