On 28 November 2011 02:11, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a long time Debian user, I started to use Debian before aptitude existed > (I > used dselect by then). I've been using aptitude since shortly after it > appeared > under the radar, and I have been using it happily since. So I decided that I > could collaborate to develop the code and/or help with packaging.
> - Does Cupt, Apt2 or some of the ongoing efforts based on PackageKit provide > a > complete replacement for what Aptitude is used today? > > - Is there anyone interested in reviving the project, or that at least > considered seriously the idea lately? I have a similar situation to yourself and began looking at this some months ago. There are many areas that need working on (error messages/exit status, limitations of grouping policies, multiarch, compatible behaviour with apt tools, etc.) along with requests for minor changes. An issue in dealing with some of these is that aptitude is dependent on libapt-pkg for much of it's functionality. E.g., #502617 and kin are due to libapt-pkg's handling of config files, which was never fleshed out with support for a non-destructive read-write cycle. I have started a list of stale bugs [1] which could be closed and taken rough notes (currently tidying them) on the general state of affairs with regards to the reported bugs. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[email protected];src=aptitude;tag=close-fixed;tag=push > - Does Debian as a whole think that it's worth pursuing? Maybe everybody is > using just apt, synaptic or something else doing the task much better, and I > didn't realise :) The aptitude interface is unique in the level of sophistication that it offers making it a real power tool that is (as yet) unmatched by synaptic and others. Aptitude is quite functional at the moment, though the amount of open bug reports unfortunately does not seem to reflect this. I am sure that with a more concerted effort to triage the bugs we can at least get the reports tidied up. Anyway, that's just my two cents, hopefully you see you are not alone in your recent investigations :-) _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
