Bug#810550: grammar and indentation of unmet dependencies message

2016-01-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
"which". If not then please reword it "so it at least passes a third grader's grammar test!" Thanks! Most of this was written by a native US person, so I don't think that it's that bad. Adding "which" would make it longer, contradictory with the previous request.

Bug#629449: Stops after first outdated release file

2016-01-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ices the problem and takes some action if desired, rather than potentially go unnoticed for a long time. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#810651: aptitude: [INTL:pt] Updated Portuguese translation for program

2016-01-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2016-01-10 22:54 Miguel Figueiredo: Package: aptitude Version: n/a Tags: l10n, patch Severity: wishlist Updated Portuguese translation for aptitude's program messages. Feel free to use it. Applied + commited, thanks! -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#797785: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#797785: aptitude: TUI to catch debtags warnins/errors

2016-01-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2016-01-10 21:36 GMT+00:00 Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org>: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 07:01:45PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> Control: tags -1 - unreproducible >> >> >> @ APT deities: could you please have a look at the bug report and tel

Bug#629449: Stops after first outdated release file

2016-01-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
< 1.1 had this behaviour, >= 1.1 should still cry loudly about the one broken repo, but update the others just fine" So I guess that this is a satisfactory resolution, closing now. Please reopen if you still experience a problem related with this. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Mont

Bug#797785: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#797785: aptitude: TUI to catch debtags warnins/errors

2016-01-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
, en_GB.UTF-8 and konsole or xterm, these characters simply show as a question mark '?' (the name of the developer) and '®' (for "Registered (R)") in my system. How/when does the errors show, when viewing the package information screen, or with other operations? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez

Bug#810221: aptitude: status line lost some information (#Broken:, DL Size)

2016-01-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
in the options anyway (aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format, from the Options menu, command line or config file), e.g. to remove the program name or version if you don't want it shown. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#809655: aptitude: harrowing upgrade for the perl transition

2016-01-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
fy the different maintainers so they can take a look to this report and see if it's a known problem and discuss whether we can try to fix it. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#675833: aptitude changelog command returns exit code 0 on errors

2016-01-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + pending Hi, 2012-06-03 16:35 Michael Prokop: Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.7-1 Severity: normal aptitude changelog command returns with exit code 0 when encountering problems: Thanks for the report. Fixed now, marking as +pending. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo

Bug#808905: forbid-version vs. "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]"

2016-01-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
of reported minor issues permit... https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764299 Summary: For all of the above, marking as +wontfix and closing. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#803849: openscenegraph: FTBFS with FFmpeg 2.9

2016-01-08 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
formed about all of this and follows upstream development closer. I just wanted to chime in because he might be busy and not reply for a few days, and specially to explain that moving to 3.4 might not be straightforward. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#810066: libogre-1.8.0: not installable in sid

2016-01-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
release, so please disregard this package. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#776728: newsbeuter: nasty memory leak in 2.8

2016-01-03 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
hours, it seems to stabilise a bit after that. Version 2.9 was released a few weeks after this last message as promised, and fixes the problem, so it would be extra nice to have the new version! Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#776728: newsbeuter: nasty memory leak in 2.8

2016-01-03 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream 2016-01-03 13:35 GMT+00:00 Nico Golde <n...@ngolde.de>: >> On 03 Jan 2016, at 12:30, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo >> <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It would be very nice to get this fixed, it's getting up to 800

Bug#562042: aptitude: should have a flag to upgrade all dependencies of a package

2016-01-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
e, similar to --with-recommends but for already installed packages. $ aptitude install '!~i~RRecommends:texlive-full' (Install the packages recommended by texlive-full which are not already installed -- harmless to omit the '!~i', but generates some errors) Hope that helps. -- Manuel A. Fernandez

Bug#743355: many files opened two or three times... inefficient?

2016-01-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
can do about this... and the operations on aptitude's user config file was already improved lately. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#809347: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#809347: mention try second identical run

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
d remove the dash package. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#570492: aptitude: TUI reselects just removed packages for installation

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
nge fixed this problem without this bug being closed. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#809184: "aptitude changelog" aborts with "Illegal instruction"

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
nfo. Looks like a problem with Boost, and I've been checking in its BTS and: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794622 The AMD K6 is an i585, or at least not a fully compatible i686, if I recall correctly. I've pinged the maintainers of the x32 port to see if they go ahead with the NMU (pushing a release with that patch included). I am not sure if we can do much more about it from aptitude's side. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#542264: aptitude: Strange messages from dependency resolver

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
it up in a logfile from this morning). I think the the behaviour of aptitude with candidate releases was suboptimal compared to a few years ago, but improved since then, including in the more recent 0.7.* series. Did you observe this behaviour lately? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#809184: "aptitude changelog" aborts with "Illegal instruction"

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
rt in many other places, not only with the "changelog" operation -- which is a minuscule part of aptitude. But one never knows, so it would be good to pin-point which library or code-path is causing this. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#488081: aptitude: prefers to take from experimental than unstable

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Even if the underlying issue wasn't fixed while this bug report stayed behind not closed (which is what I think that it happened), I don't think that there's much that we can do by now to guess what the original maintainer had in mind. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#252264: aptitude: explicit selection of less-scored version is sticky

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
one that I indicated in every step, and the candidate version was correctly shown. Can you still see this happening, and if so please provide a concrete example? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#563297: [aptitude] warn when changes affect large subtrees

2015-12-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ce this is just days short of 6 years old, and I don't see it being addressed any time soon even if somebody does think that it would be positive to implement it, so I am marking as +wontfix and closing for the reasons stated above. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#809130: ogre-1.8: FTBFS: "The following REQUIRED packages could NOT be located on your system: freetype"

2015-12-27 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
principle you can forget about ogre-1.8 for the purpose of reproducible builds. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#808985: aptitude: [INTL:it] updated Italian translation of aptitude users' manual

2015-12-26 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
... and thanks to you! -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#809070: Fwd: libsdl1.2 unicode bug causing random lockups (sdl bug #2325)

2015-12-26 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ess we are in freeze before releases, or the changes upstream are not relevant for Debian/Linux). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#809070: Fwd: libsdl1.2 unicode bug causing random lockups (sdl bug #2325)

2015-12-26 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
debian or ubuntu, so I don't know how to report this the right way, so I am sending this as an email to libsdl debian maintainers. SDL upstream already has fixed the bug, so it would be nice to see it fixed in the debian/ubuntu/etc realm. Regards. -- O.S. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manu

Bug#809038: [PATCH] SDL_image causes "libpng warning: Interlace handling should be turned on when using png_read_image" when loading interlaced images

2015-12-26 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
> I've just filed a patch fixing this upstream: > > https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3214 > > And thought you would want to know. Thanks, Hans. I was told that they plan to do a release soon, hopefully this patch arrives in time for that. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#808882: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#808882: aptitude: restore reasonable ordering of package dependencies

2015-12-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
gest conflict-type relation first: Conflicts Breaks Replaces Provides All the above sound sensible suggestions. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#807744: sbuild: aptitude 0.7.5-2 breaks sbuild upon install-deps

2015-12-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
rming the operation. There are still other warnings/errors complaining about the lack of home dir for configuration, but I think that they are present for years. josch asked me to drop a line about this, closing the bug, but I'd better leave the latter to you. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#808575: maybe use $PAGER when showing choices in command line mode

2015-12-21 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
many processes to perform various tasks, and spawning processes as root is always dangerous (and circumventing that to use lower priviledges means quite a lot of work). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#110685: (Optional) apt-get clean after install

2015-12-20 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
: This is just a "vote" for this wishlist bug, since it seems to have been forgotten. I think most users would want this behavior. This has been implemented now, it will be present in the next release. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#485832: aptitude: doesn't re-read apt.conf after dpkg run

2015-12-20 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
g towards a +wontfix, leaving it open for further consideration. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#366520: aptitude: please consider implementing "uninstall on sight" option

2015-12-19 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
report. What's your opinion, Marc? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#654938: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#654938: aptitude gets uncaught exception by keypress in search box

2015-12-16 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-12-12 15:42 Götz Hoffart: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:17:10 + "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> wrote: Control: tags -1 + unreproducible moreinfo help Hi Goetz, 2012-01-06 23:02 Goetz Hoffart: >Package: aptitude >Version: 0.6.3-3.2+sque

Bug#807852: aptitude fails when home dir does not exist (sbuild)

2015-12-14 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
n revision or as new upstream), so marking as +pending. @Axel: if you are reading this and it becomes critical in the next few days, when I might be slow to react, you can release at least a Debian revision with the patch -- I think that it is safe. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez

Bug#803300: prepare for giflib5

2015-12-13 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
OK for me (I suppose that also for Alberto, if he doesn't reply). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#718243: aptitude: always happens when some time has passed since the last update run

2015-12-12 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
noticed any similar problem. Does it still continue to happen in your system? If yes, can you test if it still happens with apt 1.1 recently uploaded to unstable? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#762846: aptitude: Downloading changelogs fails with "Failed to download the changelog of …: Could not open file /tmp/aptitude-root.…:…/aptitudeDownload… - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: … 80]"

2015-12-12 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
libapt and that now this problem is not present (there's still the warning reported in #806595). Can we close this? If OK, please close directly when replying. (Could be merged, but I don't think that merging them adds any value). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#654938: aptitude gets uncaught exception by keypress in search box

2015-12-12 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
many other people also use it and don't remember having seen other reports like that. I also tried within tmux (TERM=screen, as in the system/session where you reported this). I wonder if it's something specific about that program, or locales. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#773715: aptitude: let's configure you to install untrusted packages, but always becomes interactive with no default answer otherwise

2015-12-12 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ine::Ignore-Trust-Violations set and true return true else if ::CmdLine::Ignore-Trust-Violations set and false return false else // ... continue with the prompt But I don't know if it would have some harmful consequences, like people/automatic-software already setting it to false, and relying on current behaviour to continue with the prompt anyway. Adding yet another option is always an option (pun maybe intended)... but I am a bit concerned of the proliferation of options (in fact this option is basically just an alias of APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated, so completely unneded in the first place -- unless it predated apt's). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#555014: "w" command can't show dependencies while "aptitude why" can

2015-12-11 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
tation, I wonder if it ever worked. It is fixed now, will be present in the next release, so marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#535635: aptitude: "why" cannot use search patterns even though man page says it can

2015-12-11 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
e matching the pattern in question. from the old: If one or more s are present, then aptitude will begin its search at these patterns; that is, the first package in the chain it prints will be a package matching the pattern in question. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#643997: aptitude: user-requested downgrade should not cause (so much of a) downgrade penalty for conflict resolution

2015-12-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
suggestions of the resolver, I never use them by default and very rarely played with them though: http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s03s04.html Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#643997: aptitude: user-requested downgrade should not cause (so much of a) downgrade penalty for conflict resolution

2015-12-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
t the modifications to the resolver should not be guided by facilitating downgrades, they should first and foremost support well the everyday and recommended actions -- good support from downgrades is far behind in the list of priorities. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#444831: aptitude: weirdness with lincity-ng

2015-12-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
close all your bug reports with this "excuse", but basically the most likely cause is the state of the system at that point (and the fact that lincity-ng had broken depends). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#540978: aptitude: Aptitude makes the wrong choice when resolving conflict with alternative package

2015-12-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
-gstreamer are not in unstable now), but if you continue to have a similar set-up it would be quicker / more reliable to confirm if the behaviour it's still happening as you saw it in the past. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#807523: apt: enum of VerPriority and results from pkgCache::Priority() are inconsistent

2015-12-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Extra apt-pkg/orderlist.cc: // Important Required Standard Optional Extra Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <m...@debian.org>

Bug#729349: aptitude why should know about priorities

2015-12-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
again, deps are enough reason to explain why it's installed or broken, I guess; and if we don't change that there is less chance of breakages/complaints because of Con #1. At the moment I think that the main concern is addressed, so marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#678832: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2015-12-07 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
quivalently, firing up the interactive resolver and asking texlive-fonts-extra to remain uninstalled). Maybe it's indeed a bug in the resolver, but it's quite difficult to test that scenario right now. Have you seen the behaviour lately with this or other packages? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#643997: aptitude: user-requested downgrade should not cause (so much of a) downgrade penalty for conflict resolution

2015-12-07 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
s nobody was interested in implementing this or even seconding it, it doesn't make sense to keep it indefinitely gathering dust. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#643997: aptitude: user-requested downgrade should not cause (so much of a) downgrade penalty for conflict resolution

2015-12-07 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
;, or "U" in curses, it should downgrade to the version in unstable. (There are some bugs with the "upgrade" part though, that I am trying to address now, so I ). Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Regarding the warning, it does tell you in the command

Bug#348679: aptitude: doesn't do downgrade for packages pinned high

2015-12-07 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
. $ Additionally, "U" in interactive aptitude doesn't do anything as well. Thanks for the report. I commited a fix to VCS and all of the modalities of upgrades now work with this. Will be present in the next release, so marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <

Bug#344700: ignores /etc/apt/preferences

2015-12-07 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
in /etc/apt/preferences - Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 100 However downgrading remains impossible Thanks for this report. The fix was commited for VCS and will be present in the next release, marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo

Bug#485008: aptitude: 'why' doesn't seem to work

2015-12-07 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ot sure what was going on there. I made some tests with several other packages, esp. of these cases that I mentioned (required like gcc-5-base, and virtual) and everything seems to work fine now. Maybe the underlying problem was fixed without this bug being closed. Cheers. -- Manuel A.

Bug#755677: aptitude: Recognizes "Debian Backports" packages as official for downloading changelogs on the CLI, but not in the TUI

2015-12-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
n one place out of two as it seems: only for the command line interface. And indeed, if I do the same from the command line on Sid, it works as expected, at least in Sid: "aptitude changelog redmine=2.5.1-2\~bpo70+2" works fine. Now merged code and works in both, marking as +pending. Cheer

Bug#807098: don't ask "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]" if there is nothing to do

2015-12-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
, or often, or only happened once? Maybe in your case there was something that needed to be written to the package states on disk, or happened after some files from apt or debtags had changed on disk and thought that its own states needed some changes, etc. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez

Bug#807098: don't ask "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]" if there is nothing to do

2015-12-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
what you ask with "-o" -- that seems to be the long-standing bug #587671 and its duplicates, so merging. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#807076: I accept the final solution, but then it doesn't install anything

2015-12-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: severity -1 minor 2015-12-06 1:04 GMT+00:00 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org>: >>>>>> "MAFM" == Manuel A Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com> >>>>>> writes: > > MAFM> dependencies, it decides to

Bug#807098: don't ask "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]" if there is nothing to do

2015-12-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
orming an action like "purge ~c" too often (which suggests that one actually doesn't care anymore about any cruft left behind), and too often also wants asks for confirmation to not do anything, it is a possible alternative. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#807098: don't ask "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]" if there is nothing to do

2015-12-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
like the "purge ~c" -> "aptitude -y purge ~c". Either that or pressing a single Enter in the relatively rare occasions when nothing needs to be done, doesn't look terribly inconvenient to me. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#640731: Wrong priority shown by aptitude -versions

2015-12-06 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
that the output of the versions option is broken and misleading. Thanks for the report. This is now fixed and will be present in the next release, marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

2015-12-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ivileges, to avoid failing with the operation. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#807076: I accept the final solution, but then it doesn't install anything

2015-12-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ull upgrade" of all packages because of incompatibility of versions in the different suites that are into the mix. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#806315: dpkg-dev: Missing support for field Build-Essential

2015-12-04 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-12-04 2:24 GMT+00:00 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>: > Hi! > > On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 12:02:39 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> Package: dpkg-dev >> Version: 1.18.3 >> Severity: wishlist > >> When I want to generate a dummy

Bug#792601: aptitude: newline in user tags breaks pkgstates file

2015-12-03 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-12-03 15:41 GMT+00:00 Badalisc <badali...@thewayofunix.org>: > On 2015-12-03 02:01, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> >> I am fixing this by forbidding to use non-graphic characters (so, >> excluding control and spaces). I think that it's a reasonab

Bug#642800: show old and new dependencies on upgrade conflict

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
t a suggestion, of course. I thought about that, but I think that starting to user usertags would mean some extra effort, even if not much, and I feel that I spend already too many hours in the BTS :-/ Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#516131: aptitude: unmarkauto not working?

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
to this in the recent years/versions. Some parts of the resolver were changed a lot in those years, esp. in the run up to 0.6. Have you experienced the same behaviour since, or did it only happen during that time? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#565760: aptitude: wants to remove packages recommended by a package marked as hold

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
, and in general I haven't observed this behaviour about wanting to remove recommended packages of packages on hold in the last few years. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#474876: aptitude: selections lost by package reconfiguration

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ing as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#792601: aptitude: newline in user tags breaks pkgstates file

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
am fixing this by forbidding to use non-graphic characters (so, excluding control and spaces). I think that it's a reasonable requirement for "tags". Marking as +pending, will be present in the next release. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#476596: aptitude: reason not displayed for package removed because of recommends->suggests dep. downgrade

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
, etc)? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#497297: aptitude pulls in recommends even if dependency met elsewhere

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
years, probably in the run up to aptitude 0.6. (in curses) 1) removing gawk 2) podget depends on "gawk (>= 4.0.0) | mawk (>= 1.3.0)" 3) installing podget doesn't pull in gawk, it is happy with mawk Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#557183: aptitude: insists on installing gawk when other awks are present

2015-12-02 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
gt;= 4.0.0) | mawk (>= 1.3.0)" 3) installing podget doesn't pull in gawk, it is happy with mawk If you can still see this issue, could you please provide a reproducible case? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#642800: show old and new dependencies on upgrade conflict

2015-12-01 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
gs that are currently under consideration" (so they are easier to find, and if browser sessions go to waste, as sometimes happened, I still can know in which ones I was looking at among the several hundreds of other bugs). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#806770: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#806770: aptitude: Command parameter to restore /etc/ configuration files easily

2015-12-01 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, 2015-12-01 16:40 Axel Beckert: Control: block -1 by 32877 Hi, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >It would be satisfying if that command would have 1 parameter only instead of >long command not easy to remember: >sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss"

Bug#357707: feature request: Mark packages as Download Only

2015-12-01 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
rstandably after a decade) no reply for 2 months to clarify those questions. Please reopen if you can provide more information. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#806770: aptitude: Command parameter to restore /etc/ configuration files easily

2015-12-01 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
if that command would have 1 parameter only instead of long command not easy to remember: sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" install --reinstall Isn't this more or less the same? aptitude purge ${pkg}; aptitude install ${pkg} Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <

Bug#760608: aptitude: No format string for package architecture

2015-12-01 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
show the architecture for the "native"/primary one. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#248561: aptitude: does not show repository used / display origin (%O) in format strings

2015-12-01 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#604982: aptitude: The -F option is not able to show the source package / display source package in format strings name

2015-12-01 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#800017: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#800017: Bug#800017: Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff - open (2: No such file or di

2015-11-30 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
e Have you seen this problem with the recent updates? I saw that apt made changes related to this in the last few versions (1.1~exp* and after moving to unstable). Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#365298: aptitude: Obsolete keybind in figures of the document

2015-11-30 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
do it for all languages of the guide where this applies, not only English * do not forget updates for the "text-mode figures" (alternative text for the images), not only the changes to the menu keybindings but also the other text/visuals that change Then they will be updated. Cheers.

Bug#806315: dpkg-dev: Missing support for field Build-Essential

2015-11-26 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.3 Severity: wishlist Hi, When I want to generate a dummy build-essential package with equivs, I get this: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field 'Build-Essential' in input data in package's section of control info file Yet, the official

Bug#806342: debootstrap: Missing "--foreign" and "--second-stage" in "--help"

2015-11-26 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.75 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi, --help says: --second-stage-target=DIRRun second stage in a subdirectory instead of root (can be used to create a foreign chroot) (requires

Bug#693219: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2015-11-26 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
r --second-stage nor --foreign are mentioned. -- Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#514348: aptitude fails to detect if a package is installable

2015-11-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
se. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#536869: aptitude: confused by versioned conflicts

2015-11-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
to investigate this bug report by now. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#642800: show old and new dependencies on upgrade conflict

2015-11-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
at which the package is now, and which options could be taken (some of them will solve this particular problem, but will break other things). Same as above, perhaps including the current version (although it's already printed in the solutions offered) and the current planned action would h

Bug#446265: aptitude bug

2015-11-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
. Need to get 66.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 9,216 B will be used. Note: Using 'Download Only' mode, no other actions will be performed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#699191: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#699191: aptitude don't depend on apt, but don't work correctly without apt

2015-11-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Sorry, I somehow missed this reply... 2015-11-07 23:39 Axel Beckert: Hi, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >This has been discussed just recently on the Aptitude mailing list: > >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/aptitude-devel/2012-December/003251.html > >It's curre

Bug#729095: aptitude: 'Modified configuration file' choices

2015-11-24 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
s is dpkg, debconf or programs called by them, not aptitude itself. So I am afraid that we cannot do anything about this. Also, staring a new shell doesn't work on a remote machine: "No terminal, and no DISPLAY set, can't fork shell." This doesn't come from aptitude either.

Bug#349413: aptitude: format string %t is not coherent with what is displayed in dependency solver

2015-11-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
for the package display doesn't shwo anything from packages only available locally. 'now' would be useful and coherent at this point. Thanks for the suggestion, this has been implemented and will be present in the next release, marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo

Bug#760608: aptitude: No format string for package architecture

2015-11-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
don't have any alternative, like "source" or "origin"). Unless we start to use unusual characters or multiple letters, I am not sure if this is possible to implement. It needs more consideration, thus the +moreinfo. [1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s01.ht

Bug#759772: Allow format strings to require fixed width for optional arguments

2015-11-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
[1] http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s01.html "Placing a question mark (?) between the % and the character identifying the escape causes the column's “basic” width to vary depending on its content. Note that the resulting columns might not line up vertically!" Cheers. -- Manuel A.

Bug#322990: aptitude: add a format string escape to display how much space would be freed if this package was purged

2015-11-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
ut this is probably a candiate for closure as well, because after more than a decade without "seconds" or attempts to implement it, I simply don't think that it's very useful to keep around. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#578412: aptitude: [Display customization] %t escape not complying with the formatting rule

2015-11-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
to mess with this hairy area of column formatting any time soon. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#498442: say if %T refers to add-user-tag tags or make such an %escape

2015-11-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
n unimplemented feature. So implemented now, and marked as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

Bug#665824: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665824: possibility for the user to mark installed packages with some kind of text

2015-11-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
other-tag This has been requested in: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498442 ... I implemented it in this way now, please see that bug report for more explanations. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>

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