Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.2.1-2 Severity: normal Hi.
The colon ":" key can be used to revert the to current change of a package status. E.g. When a package is about to be purged, : makes keeping it installed. Now unlike the other keys (+, -, _, etc.) : does not work in all places. When the detail view of a package is entered, and on is on the top, where the package name is, it works. However, when one selects the packge as part of the Dependencies, Suggests, Recommends, etc. or as part of the list created when pressing "g",... using : is simply ignored. How I could explain it well ;) Cheers, Chris. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.6.2.1 compiled at Apr 23 2010 14:34:56 Compiler: g++ 4.4.3 Compiled against: apt version 4.8.0 NCurses version 5.7 libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.8.0 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff3fbff000) libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 (0x00007f506bf66000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f506bd13000) liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0x00007f506b925000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f506b720000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f506b454000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f506b1dc000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f506ae88000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f506ac71000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f506a9e0000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.42.0 (0x00007f506a7c5000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f506a5a9000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f506a294000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f506a012000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f5069dfc000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f5069a9a000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f5069897000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f5069693000) libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0x00007f506946f000) libdb-4.8.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so (0x00007f50690f5000) libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0x00007f5068ebd000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f5068cac000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f5068aa4000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f506c248000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f506889f000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007f5068668000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f5068440000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libboost-iostreams1.42. 1.42.0-3 Boost.Iostreams Library ii libc6 2.11.1-3 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.30 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-4 GCC support library ii liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1.1 A logging library for C++ ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-4 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.20-2 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.37 maintenance tools for a Xapian ind ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.6.2.1-2 English manual for aptitude, a ter ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii sensible-utils 0.0.4 Utilities for sensible alternative Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags 1.7.9+b2 Enables support for package tags ii tasksel 2.81 Tool for selecting tasks for insta -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org