Package: aptitude
Version: 0.5.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
thanks for aptitude!
At #516254, it has been pointed out that apt-xapian-index is now getting
installed on pbuilder build systems, which is a problem.
At first I wonderer why, since I assumed that aptitude's
apt-xapian-index functions were somehow optional functions, and that it
would only Recommend it. It has then pointed out that indeed aptitude
Depends: on apt-xapian-index, pulling it in every time.
I am obviously happy if apt-xapian-index gets used as much as possible,
but I can think of various examples where it makes sense to have
aptitude but not apt-xapian-index. Besides pbuilder, sbuild and
friends, embedded systems also come to mind, and probably even cluster
nodes and similar kinds of server systems.
Would aptitude actually break if apt-xapian-index were not there, or can
the dependency be safely relaxed into a Recommends?
Ciao,
Enrico
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Nov 20 2008 05:11:32
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20081213
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff6a3fe000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0x00007fb361eb1000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fb361c66000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fb361a61000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fb36178e000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007fb361515000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007fb3611ab000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fb360f94000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fb360d78000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fb360a6c000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fb3607e9000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fb3605d2000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb36027f000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fb36007c000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fb35fe78000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb362172000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.26 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-3 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-3 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 [aptitude-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.9 Enables support for package tags
ii tasksel 2.78 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
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