Public bug reported: Binary package hint: aptitude
I just updated/upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid. During the updates & upgrades apt and all its brethen got updated as well. I use aptitude but now this just shows too much not useful info. while doing dependancy checking sudo aptitude safe-upgrade [sudo] password for shirish: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done open: 28; closed: 854; defer: 918; conflict: 8 . Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... open: 27; closed: 1229; defer: 1445; conflict: 42 . Resolving dependencies... open: 27; closed: 1972; defer: 2270; conflict: 45 O Resolving dependencies... open: 23; closed: 2053; defer: 2379; conflict: 48 o Resolving dependencies... Resolving dependencies... open: 22; closed: 2164; defer: 2524; conflict: 54 o Resolving dependencies... open: 20; closed: 2251; defer: 2656; conflict: 57 O Resolving dependencies... open: 18; closed: 2336; defer: 2785; conflict: 60 o Resolving dependencies... open: 19; closed: 2504; defer: 3018; conflict: 63 O Resolving dependencies... open: 19; closed: 2622; defer: 3189; conflict: 66 o Resolving dependencies... open: 16; closed: 2662; defer: 3233; conflict: 69 . Resolving dependencies... open: 9; closed: 2774; defer: 3404; conflict: 72 o Resolving dependencies... open: 12; closed: 2826; defer: 3459; conflict: 75 . Resolving dependencies... open: 9; closed: 2967; defer: 3665; conflict: 76 o Resolving dependencies... open: 2; closed: 3267; defer: 4105; conflict: 78 . Resolving dependencies... open: 1; closed: 3382; defer: 4278; conflict: 79 This makes me very nervous, dunno if I'm doing the right thing or not for update-manager tells me only 4 updates are available while aptitude tells me something like 40 odd packages which can be updated/upgraded. Also should I trust aptitude or not, no idea :( ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 Package: aptitude 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_IN SourcePackage: aptitude Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686 ** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug -- aptitude showing lots of unecessary information after initializing package states https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283011 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs