Install notification of Additional Software is not handling target release

In my live-additional-software.conf I have ikiwiki/sid.

The target version (sid) is passed correctly to apt install and ikiwiki from sid is being installed.

But I also get a notification asking me whether I want to install it every time. See screenshot in attachment.

So it seems to me that the APT hook of Additional Software doesn’t handle well target releases.

In the logs I have:

Aug 20 07:54:18 amnesia tails-additiona[4882]: [INFO] New packages manually installed: {'ikiwiki'}

• It should at least respect target releases when entered manually in live-additional-software.conf. It doesn’t make sense to have two different versions of the same package installed. So, in my case for example, the APT hook should detect that I already have ikiwiki in my live-additional-software.conf though it’s called ikiwiki/sid.

• Ideally, it should process ikiwiki/sid as being manually installed and not only ikiwiki so it can add the target version to live-additional-software.conf.

Feature Branch: bugfix/14598-asp-review-bugs

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Parent Task: #15567 (closed)

Related issues

• Related to #16298 (closed)

Original created by @sajolida on 15822 (Redmine)