[Aptitude-devel] Bug#836567: Bug#836567: aptitude: [PATCH] aborts on encountering new DepCompareOp flags

[Aaron M. Ucko]

"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> writes:

> In practice the %-operation would probably achieve the same, but I think
> that this way is easier to understand.

That's fair, and I agree that it should be equivalent in practice.
As a matter of style, though, I might declare comp_mask as

    static const int comp_mask;

> Patch attached.  I will try to get it into the next release.

Sounds good.

> Aaron, it would be great if you could test it and check that it fixes
> the problem.  I never stumbled upon this problem, even if I use
> multi-arch in most of my systems.

I'm not sure what specifically about my installation triggered this
behavior.  FWIW, when aptitude 0.8.5-1 hit testing three weeks ago, I
decided to try switching back to a stock build, and haven't seen any
trouble on this front since.  However, it's probably still best to
defend against the possibility, so please do proceed here.

Thanks!

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