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Bug#708135: release-notes: Should mention change of aptitude config "Apt::AutoRemove::Suggests-Important"



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On Lu, 13 mai 13, 14:21:32, Pavel Krč wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> Severity: normal
> 
> The new version of aptitude in wheezy changes the default value of option
> "Apt::AutoRemove::Suggests-Important" from false to true. This significantly
> changes behavior of package management with aptitude by not auto-removing all
> suggested packages and it might cause confusion as it is not configurable with
> ui (and is not present at generated config file). Missing documentation for
> this change was resolved as bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
> bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685310 , however as this is an important change
> introduced by upgrade to wheezy, it should also be mentioned in release notes.

Patch attached.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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From 6307f97481b598c81b06d9fa1760c07099692a40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:17:25 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] apt does not autoremove suggested packages

---
 trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
index 68df2b8..1f572f6 100644
--- a/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
+++ b/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk
@@ -906,6 +906,16 @@ tmpfs     /tmp tmpfs     nodev,nosuid,size=20%,mode=1777    0    0
 
 </section>
 
+<section id="autoremove-suggests">
+  <title>No automatic removal of suggested packages</title>
+  <para>
+  The APT version in &releasename; by default does not propose packages for
+  removal if they are suggested by other packages. If you wish to revert to
+  the previous behaviour this can be done by setting the configuration option
+  <literal>APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant</literal> to <literal>false</literal>.
+  </para>
+</section>
+
 </section>
 
 </chapter>
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