Package: aptitude Version: 0.8-1 Followup-For: Bug #822329 Dear Maintainer,
I wish to second the bug report. I have several machines of various ages and speeds, and on some this is a true nuisance. I tried to install a modern Debian (i.e., sid) on a raspberry, everything worked fine except for the several second wait in aptitude. I admit I did not read through the bug report this is supposed to fix, but there should be a way to disable this new behaviour without breaking basic functionality such as satifaction of "Recommends" in easy cases. Cheers, Itaï. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm-256color $DISPLAY not set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20160409 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.8.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20160319 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc6d102000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007fba757f3000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fba755c3000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fba75398000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fba75191000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fba74e94000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fba74b99000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fba7497f000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fba74766000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007fba74561000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fba7415d000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fba73f40000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fba73bbd000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fba738bf000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fba736a9000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fba73304000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fba73101000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fba72efd000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007fba72ce5000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fba72aca000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fba728ba000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fba72696000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007fba72484000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fba7227b000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fba72076000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055f0bca49000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.11 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1 ii libc6 2.22-7 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.0.1-2 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20160319-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.8.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.12.2-1 ii libstdc++6 6.0.1-2 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160319-1 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.23-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information