Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: wishlist
When a serious conflict arises with an update, the resolver usually presents many solutions with a lot of removed packages, then you have to browse a lot of solutions to usually find a more acceptable one, consisting of keeping a few packages at the current version, and perhaps removing a few ones. It would be more convenient if the first solutions presented were the ones with the minimum number of packages removed. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov 8 2014 13:34:39 Compiler: g++ 4.9.1 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.4.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffec7deb000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fc59c3f5000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fc59c1c5000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fc59bf9a000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc59bd94000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fc59ba7e000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc59b7b0000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007fc59b598000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fc59b181000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc59af63000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc59ac57000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc59a956000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc59a73f000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc59a396000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fc59a193000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc599f8e000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc599d73000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc599b63000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc59993f000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc599737000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc599531000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000056525f74b000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.11-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.10 ii libboost-iostreams1.55.0 1.55.0+dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libcwidget3 0.5.17-2 ii libgcc1 1:5.1.1-14 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.4.1-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.11.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.1.1-14 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libxapian22 1.2.21-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.33 -- no debconf information