Please backport aptitude 0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1 (main) from quantal
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Precise Backports |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Please backport aptitude 0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1 (main) from quantal to precise.
Reason for the backport:
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aptitude 0.6.6 as provided with precise does not support multiarch properly. This means that if multiarch is used, aptitude cannot be used properly, and is potentially dangeous because it can suggest bogus package uninstalls. 0.6.8.1 as packaged with quantal solves this problem.
Testing:
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Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.
You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s quantal -d precise aptitude
* precise:
[X] Package builds without modification
- package requires libapt-pkg4.12 >= 0.9.3, precise only provides 0.8.16
I also did a no-change backport of apt (0.9.7.5ubuntu5.3) from quantal, after which
the package built without modification, and all packages installed and ran properly.
[X] aptitude-doc-en installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-dbg installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-doc-fi installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-doc-ja installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-common installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-doc-fr installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-doc-it installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-doc-es installs cleanly and runs
[X] aptitude-doc-cs installs cleanly and runs
Reverse dependencies:
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The following reverse-
aptitude-doc-en
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aptitude-dbg
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aptitude-doc-fi
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aptitude-doc-ja
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aptitude-common
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aptitude
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* tasksel
[X] precise (Reverse-Depends)
* daptup
[ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* ppa-purge
[X] precise (Reverse-Depends)
* ibid
[ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* febootstrap
[ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
[X] precise (Reverse-
* libguestfs
[X] precise (Reverse-
* apt
[X] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
* apt-watch-gnome
[ ] precise (Reverse-
* wajig
[X] precise (Reverse-Depends)
* pkgsync
[ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
* dpkg
[ ] precise (Reverse-Breaks)
* fai-server
[ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
aptitude-doc-fr
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aptitude-doc-it
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aptitude-doc-es
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aptitude-doc-cs
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summary: |
- Please backport aptitude (0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1) from quantal + Please backport aptitude 0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1 (main) from quantal |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in precise-backports: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
Sorry if the format is wrong, it's my first backport request (and in fact my first real report overall), and since I couldn't find a howto, I just decided to wing it and emulate other requests in the queue.
I pushed apt and aptitude into a ppa via backportpackage quantal->precise, and could afterwards install and use the new version by adding ppa:flosch42/ aptitude- multiarch and doing a dist-upgrade.