Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-4
Severity: wishlist
I mostly keep my systems on stable. When I upgrade to a new version,
the New Packages folder in aptitude has thousands of entries. I am
not going to succeed in reviewing all of those before the next time my
nightly apticron does an update and potentially adds entries to the
folders I thought I'd already reviewed; unless I start at the
beginning each day (in which case I'll never reach the end) I'll miss
some entries. It would be nice if there were some way of marking the
entries I *have* reviewed (and decided whether to install) as "no
longer new" without forgetting all the ones I *haven't* yet reviewed.
For example: by analogy with f to forget all, F could forget the
newness of the item currently selected; that may be a single package
or it may be a folder. In the latter case, naturally, the contents of
that folder are to be marked as no longer new. (Obviously, if F is
already in use to mean some other thing, pick some other suitable
key.)
This would make it possible to do a rolling review of all new packages
when I upgrade; each day I'd review some of the outstanding new
packages and F these; the next day, apticron has updated the package
list, so some new entries may have appeared in the folders I F'd last
time; because I did F what I have reviewed, only these new entries are
present in those folders, so I don't have to wade through what was
already there to notice them. While it may take a long time to wade
through thousands of packages, this at least makes the task feasible
without suppressing everything that might update the package list for
the duration of the time it takes to review them all.
As it is, I either forget thousands of new packages without every
reviewing them or never get round to reviewing the thousands of
packages new in the new release - either way, I don't actually get to
know about fancy new things someone has taken lots of time and effort
to make available to me.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.6.3 compiled at Apr 2 2011 22:19:05
Compiler: g++ 4.5.2
Compiled against:
apt version 4.10.1
NCurses version 5.8
libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.10.1
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7791000)
libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 (0xb7664000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb761f000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7619000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7559000)
libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0xb7501000)
libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb72e4000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb72d0000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb7231000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0
(0xb721b000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7202000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7113000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb70ed000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb70d0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6f75000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6f71000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6f6d000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6f69000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6f58000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6f4e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7792000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg4.10] 0.8.14.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-4+b1 Boost.Iostreams Library
ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept1 1.0.5 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-10 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.9-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.6.3-1 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian22 1.2.5-1 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii apt-xapian-index 0.41 maintenance and search tools for a
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.3-4 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii sensible-utils 0.0.6 Utilities for sensible alternative
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.11 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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