[Aptitude-devel] Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Thu, May 05 2016, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
> What I do to use debdelta with aptitude, is the following:
>
> * Start "aptitude -u" inside a screen session
> * Wait until the package lists are updated.
> * Run "debdelta-upgrade" in a second window of the screen session
>   while aptitude's TUI is still open.
> * Any package scheduling change updates the amount of needed downloads
>   in the status line (top right).

Indeed, I do the same. Moreover, I generally specify manually the list
of packages to upgrade in debdelta-upgrade invocation (which is why I'd
like aptitude integration in the first place) to the same list I
selected in aptitude.

When having limited bandwidth, I have to hand-pick upgrades.