Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.2.1-2
Severity: normal
When functionality from a package P is merged into a new package Q, and
the user erroneusly requests to install Q, aptitude should warn the user
that downgrading Q to install the old P is possibly not necessary.
As an example, baobab from etch has been merged into gnome-utils in Lenny,
as can be seen by the metadata Replaces: and Conflicts:, so asking to
install baobab can lead to downgrade gnome-utils, breaking gnome, and
autoremoving hundreds of packages, when actually no action was really
required.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.2.1 compiled at Apr 23 2010 16:34:25
Compiler: g++ 4.4.3
Compiled against:
apt version 4.8.0
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.8.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f86000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8
(0xb7e9d000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e57000)
liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0xb7cb0000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7caa000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7be6000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7b73000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7a23000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7a0e000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb7989000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0
(0xb7970000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7957000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7866000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7840000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7813000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb76b3000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb76af000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb76ab000)
libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0xb768b000)
libdb-4.8.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so (0xb7526000)
libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0xb74f9000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb74e9000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb74e0000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f87000)
libdb-4.7.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.7.so (0xb7389000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb7362000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb735e000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb732c000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set
to en_US.ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libboost-iostreams1.42 1.42.0-3 Boost.Iostreams Library
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.30 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library
ii liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1.1 A logging library for C++
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-2 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.20-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.30 maintenance tools for a Xapian ind
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.1.5-3 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii sensible-utils 0.0.1 Utilities for sensible alternative
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.79 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
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