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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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