Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: wishlist The letter shorthands are listed in the man page for aptitude, but it might be nice to clarify what they mean in the table for "aptitude why/why not". It's a fairly common thing that people are going to look for to reference, especially beginners.
-- Package-specific info: $TERM not set. $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov 8 2014 13:34:39 Compiler: g++ 4.9.1 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.4.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd891e8000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fc51cf55000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fc51cd1f000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fc51caf5000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc51c8ef000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fc51c5d9000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fc51c310000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007fc51c0f8000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fc51bce7000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc51baca000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc51b7bf000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc51b4be000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc51b2a8000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc51aefd000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fc51acfa000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc51aaf6000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc51a8db000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fc51a6cb000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc51a4a8000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc51a2a0000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc51a09b000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc51d918000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.11-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.8.4 ii libboost-iostreams1.55.0 1.55.0+dfsg-3 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 ii libcwidget3 0.5.17-2 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.4.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u2 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libxapian22 1.2.19-1+deb8u1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.11-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.31+deb8u1 -- no debconf information