Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.1.3-3
Severity: normal
Hi,
If 'm' or 'M' is pushed while a category (e.g. "Installed Packages") is
highlighted, all packages in that category are either marked as manually
installed ('m') or automatically installed ('M').
This could be a nice feature, but at the same time it can destroy a lot
of
information about how and why a package is on the system. E.g. the first time
I fat fingered 'm' I saw that all the packages were marked as manually
installed, but didn't know that I had caused it. Then I exited aptitude
normally and the changes were saved. Now I have craploads of libraries marked
as manually installed. Yuck.
Perhaps an intervening confirmation or a message saying "you have
pushed 'm'
while selecting a category, thereby marking multiple packages as manually
installed, to revert to previous markings, push 'z'".
Thanks,
C.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.2
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
990 testing security.debian.org
990 testing ftp.egr.msu.edu
990 hardy linux.dell.com
980 testing mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
500 stable ftp.egr.msu.edu
50 unstable ftp.egr.msu.edu
40 experimental ftp.egr.msu.edu
30 karmic us.archive.ubuntu.com
25 unstable mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
================================================-+-====================
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 |
libboost-iostreams1.40.0 (>= 1.40.0-1) | 1.40.0-4
libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~) | 2.10.2-2
libcwidget3 | 0.5.16-2
libept0 (>= 0.5.29) | 0.5.29
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.4.2-3
liblog4cxx10 | 0.10.0-1
libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3) | 5.7+20090803-2
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) | 2.0.18-2
libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.20) | 3.6.21-2
libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1) | 4.4.2-3
libxapian15 | 1.0.17-1
zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) | 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15
Recommends (Version) | Installed
============================================-+-===========
aptitude-doc-en |
OR aptitude-doc |
sensible-utils | 0.0.2
apt-xapian-index |
libparse-debianchangelog-perl |
Suggests (Version) | Installed
=======================-+-===========
tasksel | 2.78
debtags |
--- Output from package bug script ---
aptitude 0.6.1.3 compiled at Nov 20 2009 15:39:26
Compiler: g++ 4.3.4
Compiled against:
apt version 4.8.1
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Gtk+ support disabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090803
cwidget version: 0.5.16
Apt version: 4.8.1
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77b7000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8
(0xb76de000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb769a000)
liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0xb74f0000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb74ea000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7427000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb73ac000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb725b000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7246000)
libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb71c4000)
libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0
(0xb71b9000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb71a0000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb70af000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7089000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb706b000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6f24000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6f20000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6f1c000)
libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0xb6efc000)
libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0xb6ece000)
libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6eca000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6ec1000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb6e8f000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6e7f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77b8000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6e58000)
Terminal: xterm
:0.0 is set.
/usr/bin/aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
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