Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-5 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: sm...@smurf.noris.de
I'm trying to update a rather complex development system from Bookworm to Trixie, i.e. through the 64-bit time transition. The machine has three architectures installed, most libraries are (historically) not marked as autoinstalled, and I have a bunch of self-built packages of various historical state. In this sort of situation it's really common for the autoresolver to not find a solution. The problem is that attempting to manually resolve the transition causes the "immediate dependency resolution" attempt (which aptitude unconditionally performs whenever you change a package's state) to take arbitrarily long. I'm seeing 30+ seconds *each time I press + or -*, and that's on a >2-GHz 8-core workstation with a heap of RAM. Getting from 600 to 50 broken packages took me *two days*. Thus, I'd like to (urgently) ask you to add a way to *turn this immediate resolution thing off*, via some config option. The current situation is untenable; updating nontrivial systems to Trixie is going to be a *lot* of fun, for some non-empty subset of them, if this isn't fixed. The change should be backported to Stable, for obvious reasons. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers testing APT policy: (850, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64, armhf Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.13-5 pn libapt-pkg6.0 <none> pn libboost-iostreams1.74.0 <none> ii libc6 2.38-13 ii libcwidget4 0.5.18-6 ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14 ii libncursesw6 6.4-4 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.12.0-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.40.1-2 ii libstdc++6 14-20240201-3 ii libtinfo6 6.4-4 ii libxapian30 1.4.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.22 ii sensible-utils 0.0.17+nmu1 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.73 -- debconf-show failed
