Control: tags -1 + pending
Hi,
2016-02-13 09:13 Michael Below:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.5-3
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
when installing a package that requires dependencies, aptitude lists the dependencies
that will be installed automatically ("Packages being automatically
installed..."). In the lower half of the terminal window it shows information which
package required this dependency, and what version of that depending package was
installed/is going to be installed. But the information on the versions is more
mysterious than it has to be.
"installed, none" and its translations like "Installiert, nichts" require second thought
-- at first sight, this seems to say something is installed, with an additional ", none" -- maybe a
package without version information? Spoken language doesn't work in such a reverse notation way.
Please replace this with a simple "not installed" to improve usability.
The message is not "installed, none"; it's "$planned_action,
$current_ver -> $planned_ver"; so it would be "installed, from none ->
1.2.3-5". I did this to be more consistent with other actions
(upgrades, downgrades).
Admittedly it can be confusing, specially since it asserts "installed"
instead of "to be installed" -- I aimed for succintness, since the whole
lines are sometimes very long. I will use "install", "remove",
"reinstall" etc. now.
I also made some changes to use e.g. "install, $planned_version" and
"remove, $current_version", so hopefully the end result will be more
clear now.
Thanks for the suggestion.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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