Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.2-1ubuntu1
Severity: important

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Hi all,
The aptitude package has two options. One is either using the aptitude
GUI or the aptitude CLI.
In the aptitude GUI one can see and resolve,purge obsolete packages. I
read the man page of aptitude but didn't find any option to show which
are obsolete packages on the CLI. So there are two possibilities .

1. There is no such switch or flag which shows this information.
2. There is a switch or flag or combo but this is not documented.

In both the cases the aptitude user is poorer by the result.

Use-cases

Feel free to add/comment on the bug.

-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.2 compiled at May 27 2008 10:05:28
Compiler: g++ 4.3.1 20080525 (prerelease)
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.6.0
  NCurses version 5.6
  libsigc++ version: 2.0.17
  Ept support enabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20071124
  cwidget version: 0.5.8
  Apt version: 4.6.0
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7fab000)
        libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7ecc000)
        libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e91000)
        libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e8a000)
        libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7d98000)
        libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7d24000)
        libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7ba9000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7b93000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b7a000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a8b000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a65000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a57000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb78f9000)
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb78f5000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb78f0000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fac000)
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:

aptitude linkage:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers intrepid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'),
(500, 'intrepid-proposed'), (500, 'intrepid-backports'), (500,
'intrepid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg 0.7.14ubuntu2            Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6           2.8~20080505-0ubuntu5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcwidget3     0.5.8-1ubuntu1           high-level terminal interface libr
ii  libept0         0.5.17                   High-level library for managing De
ii  libgcc1         1:4.3.1-1ubuntu2         GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5    5.6+20071124-1ubuntu2    Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0 2.0.17-2ubuntu3          type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6      4.3.1-1ubuntu2           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libxapian15     1.0.5-1                  Search engine library
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12ubuntu1 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptit 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2           parse Debian changelogs and output

-- no debconf information


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 Shirish Agarwal
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