Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
would it be possible for aptitude in TUI to catch debtags errors/warnings, instead of let them to mess up the interface ? Specifically, I have a problem where certain old (but still usefull) apt-lists contains non-UTF8 characters. That triggers debtags to report a warning that messes up the TUI. It would be nice if aptitude was able to catch such errors and show them in a red dialog instead. Thanks, Pavel -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $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 6.0.20150810 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdf1ff5000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007febbcb6d000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007febbc93d000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007febbc712000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007febbc50c000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007febbc1f6000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007febbbf28000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007febbbd10000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007febbb8f9000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007febbb6db000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007febbb3cf000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007febbb0ce000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007febbaeb7000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007febbab0e000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007febba90b000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007febba706000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007febba4eb000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007febba2db000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007febba0b7000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007febb9eaf000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007febb9ca9000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00005632aed9b000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (840, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (840, 'testing'), (740, 'unstable'), (738, 'experimental'), (540, 'proposed-updates'), (540, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.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 1.0.9.10 ii libboost-iostreams1.55.0 1.55.0+dfsg-4 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libcwidget3 0.5.17-2 ii libgcc1 1:5.1.1-14 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.4.1-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.11.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.1.1-14 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libxapian22 1.2.21-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.11-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.47 ii debtags 2.0+nmu1 ii tasksel 3.33 -- Configuration Files: /etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed [not included] -- no debconf information