Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.1-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
since I added the i386 arch to my amd64 setup, the package list in aptitude nearly doubled in length: there are two entries for each binary package, one amd64, one i386. Arch is treated as a part of the package name. This is impractical when scrolling through the list. This gets worse if more architectures are installed. I think aptitude needs another dimension in its user interface, besides package names and package versions. There should be another column for available architectures (if there are more than one) instead of treating it like a part of the package name. Thanks for your work. Michael -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8.1 compiled at Aug 28 2012 07:23:30 Compiler: g++ 4.7.1 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffd5fff000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fa37c83d000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fa37c60d000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fa37c3e3000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fa37c1de000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fa37bede000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007fa37bc3d000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fa37b858000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa37b641000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fa37b395000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007fa37b17c000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa37af60000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fa37ac58000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa37a9d6000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa37a7c0000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa37a438000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fa37a235000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fa37a031000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fa379e20000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fa379c1b000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fa379a12000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa37d1eb000) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.1-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.4 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-7 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-7 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libxapian22 1.2.12-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.1-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags 1.10.1 ii tasksel 3.12 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org