Re: aptitude has Priority: standard, why?
2015-03-31 15:18 GMT+02:00 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015, at 05:14, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> I am curious why the aptitude package still has Priority: standard, i.e.
>> why it is installed next to apt in each and every Debian installation?
>>
>> Aptitude isn't recommended for dist-upgrading since Lenny, I think.
>>
>> Do we really need to have two CLI package management tools installed, is
>> this reasonable?
>
> Well, aptitude IS the CLI package manager. As far as I know, it is also the most complete and advanced package manager Debian has. Make no mistake: aptitude is the Debian package manager you should be using if you can deal with text mode and the command line.
>
My main problem with Aptitude is that it currently has a lot of bugs
and does not follow some Apt policy and instead rolls its own, for
example see bug #683099, which I consider really important to resolve.
Currently, there seems to be some trouble in the Aptitude development
team, and to be fair, I can't really blame a small team of volunteers
for bugs (which are even tagged "help" now...).
But with the new "apt" tool available in Jessie, I think it is sound
to raise the question whether we need apt, aptitude and apt-* all in
the standard set, and if there is a recommendation which tool should
be used by default (or if there should be none at all).
IMHO the "apt" tool is already close to optimal, although I am missing
a few features at time (which will probably be added later).
Cheers,
Matthias
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