Bug#687492: unblock: aptitude/0.6.8.2-1 (pre-approve)
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 17:45 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> Please unblock package aptitude (pre-approve)
>
> The last serious change required for aptitude + multi-arch is to
> improve the command line handling. I refer you to [1] and [2] for the
> complete details. At the moment most commands do not support a very
> useful syntax for multi-arch and are variously inconsistent with their
> documented behaviour, each other, and the apt-utils.
Apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this.
Without being familiar with the aptitude codebase, the changes look okay
based on your descriptions. How widely have they been tested? (I realise
they've been in experimental for a while.)
> I have also attached another patch which is entirely optional, but of
> notable value to end users and relatively non-invasive. It brings in
> support for APT::Changelogs::Server which apt-cache and others have
> been using for some time. Previously we hardcoded the default value
> of that. Please also consider this patch and give it an ACK for
> inclusion if this is ok.
+ string server = aptcfg->Find("APT::Changelogs::Server",
+ "http://packages.debian.org/changelogs";);
I assume it's not possible to determine the default value being used by
apt here?
Regards,
Adam
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