Package: apt Version: 1.3~rc1 Followup-For: Bug #674523 Control: severity -1 important
Hi, I'm bumping the severity for this because it's many years old, and it is hiding an important feature from users. manpages are a very common way for users to learn about new features, and I didn't even know about external solvers until I spoke to Ralf during DebConf. Everyone has been through the situation where their apt-get gives them a "can't solve" error and it would be useful to let users experiment with what's best for themselves. These days I usually use aptitude because its dependency-solving algorithm usually works better than apt's, especially a) on a development machine where I have build-depends for many packages installed at the same time, some of which sometimes conflict, or b) on sid when I forget to upgrade for several weeks, then the packages in the archive have moved on so much, to conflict quite badly with my system But even aptitude sometimes fails, and using different solvers might help to reduce the frustration of manually having to resolve these things. X -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3 ii gpgv 1.4.20-6 ii init-system-helpers 1.42 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.3~rc1 ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libgcc1 1:6.1.1-11 ii libstdc++6 6.1.1-11 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.20-6 ii gnupg2 2.1.11-7 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.8.3-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.10 ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1 ii python-apt 1.1.0~beta4 ii synaptic 0.83+b1 -- no debconf information