On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:46:37AM -0400, Philippe Cloutier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > >Apparently there have been bugs in this for years and no-one reported > >them until they caused trouble for the d-i team several months ago. > >They should be fixed in stable's aptitude now, and I would appreciate > >bug reports on any transition problems that remain. > FWIW, I thought that you acknowledged that this problem was reported in > #299009 (over 25 months ago). I'm mentioning this because I believe this > issue is/was the main reason for "anti-aptitudism".
Bug #299009 is AFAIK about the fact that aptitude produces different dependency resolutions from the visual UI versus the command-line. This is because the command-line has more context about what the user is doing and tweaks the resolver accordingly. There's a side note in there that at the time (25 months ago), there were known problems in the then-stable release of aptitude which caused incorrect removals. I'm not sure what I was referring to -- I was working full-time on Debian (i.e., I was unemployed :-/) at the time, and I had a lot more context available back then. So my gripe might have been a little misdirected -- I forgot how old the aptitude in sarge was. My apologies to the world! It was a little disconcerting when I recently subscribed to debian-user and saw people saying "oh, don't mix apt-get and aptitude" as if it were gospel and the intended usage. I guess I'll just have to keep correcting those statement until good information drives out the bad. (FYI: the bug report that gave me the clue to the last slippery instance of this problem was #411123; kudos to Frans Pop for a high-quality report. The fact that I never saw it probably says something about my usage patterns, not to mention that I never use apt-get...) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]