As shown below, aptitude has been progressively downgraded from “important” in
oldstable (Wheezy) to “standard” in stable (Jessie), “standard” in testing
(Stretch) and finally to “optional” in unstable (Sid)
rbthomas@cube:~$ aptitude -vv show aptitude | egrep
'^(Priority|Version|Archive): ' | sed 's/^Version: / &/'
Version: 0.7.4-1
Priority: optional
Archive: unstable
Version: 0.7.4-1
Priority: optional
Archive: unstable
Version: 0.7.4-1
Priority: optional
Archive: now
Version: 0.7.2-1
Priority: optional
Archive: testing
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Priority: standard
Archive: stable
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Priority: standard
Archive: stable
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Priority: important
Archive: oldstable
And exim4 has gone from “standard” in all versions (at least those I have
access to) before testing to “optional” in testing and above.
rbthomas@cube:~$ aptitude -vv show exim4 | egrep '^(Priority|Version|Archive):
' | sed 's/^Version: / &/'
Version: 4.86-4
Priority: optional
Archive: unstable
Version: 4.86-4
Priority: optional
Archive: testing
Version: 4.86-4
Priority: optional
Archive: unstable
Version: 4.86-4
Priority: optional
Archive: now
Version: 4.84-8
Priority: standard
Archive: stable
Version: 4.84-8
Priority: standard
Archive: stable
Version: 4.80-7+deb7u1
Priority: standard
Archive: oldstable
This (and several other downgrades) seem to have been discussed on the
debian-boot list in May, 2015. See the thread that starts at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/05/msg00156.html
for details.
I have a small script I run after finishing any install that loads and
configures several packages that I use regularly but are not included in a
standard install. It just got a whole lot bigger!
Sigh!
Rick
