Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.9-2
Severity: normal
I would like to suggest that aptitude starts making backups of its
package state file, /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. As it is now,
there's no going back to an old configuration when you've exited
aptitude with "q".
The story: I accidentally pressed "_" on my "Installed Packages" group
and aptitude started asking me if I really wanted to remove all my
essential packages. Of course I didn't want to, and after pressing
"Cancel" 10 times or so I was left with the package selection screen
now suggesting to free 1.5 GiB.
At this point I should just have pressed Ctrl-c, but I just wanted to
get out of aptitude as quickly as possible so I exited with "q" as
usual...
Upon restarting I was sad to see that aptitude had remembered my
request to purge my system. I figured that I could restore my system
by pressing "+" on the "Installed Packages" --- that worked in the
sense that no packages were suggested to be purged.
But at the same time it removed all information about which packages
were installed automatically as a dependency and which were really
wanted.
So I would also like to suggest that aptitude stops allowing
operations on package groups ("Upgradable Packages", "Installed
Packages", etc) since I think it's dangerous. Or at least display a
warning or make it configurable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library
ii libncurses5 5.4-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-4 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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