Re: deity, console-apt
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 01:13:23AM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2003 21:43:15 +0200
> Peter Van Hove <ackron-debian@traikan.org> wrote:
> > heumm No aptitude and console-apt coexisted at the same time but I do
> > find that console-apt is not the same as aptitude.
> >
> > I do have the package installed on an old system, but the package is
> > just a "Dummy package wrapper for deity" so console-apt is
> > deity-ncurses.
>
> I used console-apt about two years ago, but it's not in Debian now; neither
> is deity or deity-ncurses.
>
> Perhaps it was inaccurate to say that console-apt is now called aptitude.
It was, yes. deity/console-apt and aptitude were always different
projects, although both are based on the apt libraries.
deity/console-apt was removed by the release manager during a general
purge of packages that were broken and unmaintained.
http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt says:
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[Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 05:53:52 -0500] [ftpmaster: Anthony Towns]
Removed the following packages from unstable:
console-apt | 0.8.0.6 | alpha, hppa, arm, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc, s390, ia64
deity | 0.8.0.6 | source, alpha, hppa, arm, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc, s390, ia64
deity-curses | 0.8.0.6 | alpha, hppa, arm, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc, s390, ia64
deity-gtk | 0.8.0.6 | alpha, hppa, arm, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc, s390, ia64
------------------- Reason -------------------
purged by RM; see bug 97605
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Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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