[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.5.9rc2 released

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-09-14 16:18 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:57:16AM +0200, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> was heard to say:
>> On 2009-09-12 18:38 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> 
>> >   One thing I've noticed so far is that there seems to be some
>> > flakiness in the dependency solver, particularly that it seems to miss
>> > solutions that require removing packages (but only sometimes).  I
>> > haven't had a chance to track this down yet.
>> 
>> Maybe the libreadline-dev package gives a hint, aptitude needs some
>> suasion to install it:
>
>   That's correct: in response to a lot of complaints (e.g., #359171),
> the resolver has been redesigned to be more conservative about trying
> to remove packages.

I see.  But the current behavior seems a bit too conservative, and that
may also upset people, e.g. when they want to install a different MTA.

> But the situation I ran into was one where it wasn't considering
> removals at all, even after I skipped past the first few solutions.

I'll report whenever I spot such a situation.

Sven