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and subject line Re: Bug#508532: aptitude: Would like to be able to check
orphaned status before installing
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regarding aptitude: Would like to be able to check orphaned status before
installing
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.10-1lenny1.1+b1
Severity: wishlist
It'd be nice if you could see that a package was orphaned before installing it.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.10 compiled at Oct 27 2008 21:47:55
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20080830
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f6c000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7e96000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e58000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e51000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d8d000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7ccc000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7b76000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b61000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b48000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a59000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a33000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a26000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78cb000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78c7000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78c2000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f6d000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.18 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.22 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080830-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [apt 0.4.11.10-1lenny1.1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchang 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.77 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
-- no debconf information
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tags 508532 + wontfix
stop
Hi,
2012-12-08 05:43 Daniel Hartwig:
Hello
Daniel Dickinson <[email protected]> wrote:
Package: aptitude
It'd be nice if you could see that a package was orphaned before
installing it.
I presume that you mean orphaned in the sense of WNPP: without a current
Debian maintainer. Such a check may be suitable as a third party
program, or integrated in to apt-listbugs.
I agree with the above, I think that it's better for external programs
like apt-listbugs to do this, and so the feature can be shared from the
different programs like apt, aptitude, synaptic, cups...
As a side comment, I think that knowing about this is not very useful:
there are many packages not formally orphaned which are badly
maintained, very outdated or with important problems, and some which are
orphaned which are mostly OK. In fact, just by being orphaned, at least
the situation was somewhat acknowledged and there are more chances that
people adopt them or take a look as part of QA processes/maintenance
than when they're just silently poorly maintained.
In any case, after several years with this request open and with no
"seconds" nor intentions to implement this, I think that it's better to
close this report.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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