Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Hi and thanks for maintaining my favorite package manager! ;-)
The current behavior of the autoclean command removes from the cache
*any* package which can no longer be downloaded (from currently
configured sources).
This is sometimes risky business:
suppose I pinned package P to version A (for whatever reason, e.g.:
a regression in the newer version B); when version A is no longer
available from the repositories, aptitude autoclean would remove
it from my cache, even though I still have this version installed on
my box; at thet point, if I try to upgrade to a third (even newer)
version C, in order to check whether the regression has been fixed,
I would lose the (easy) possibility to downgrade to version A.
For this reason, I think autoclean should remove packages which
can no longer be downloaded, *unless* they are still installed on
the system.
This wishlist bug is somewhat related to bug #340444, but not
really the same (since it seems that several different suggestions
were sent to #340444,).
I hope my request looks reasonable and may be implemented easily
(and soon!).
Thanks for considering.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Apr 16 2009 23:38:07
Compiler: g++ 4.3.3
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 5.7.20090523
cwidget version: 0.5.12
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff159ff000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.7
(0x00007f250d45a000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f250d20f000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f250d00a000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f250cd37000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f250cabe000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f250c756000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f250c53f000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f250c324000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f250c015000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f250bd92000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f250bb77000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f250b824000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f250b621000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f250b41d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f250d71b000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.26+b1 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.0-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.13-3 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 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:
pn debtags <none> (no description available)
ii tasksel 2.79 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
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