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  1. Bug #1082198
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Comment 3 for bug 1082198

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Axel Beckert (xtaran) wrote : Re: [Bug 1082198] Re: aptitude crashes when "New Categorical Browser" is selected from menu

Hi,

Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> It prevents the package (or a dependent one) from functioning correctly
> at all.
>
> ** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => High

I disagree on both.

The Categorical Browser is a historic feature which is is bound to be
removed from Aptitude and whose functionality has been superseeded by
the Debtags Browser for quite a while now.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717317#16 and
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717317#16 for
reference.

So It's useless to invest time to fix anything in there, except maybe
patching out the menu entry if you really want users not to run into
this issue (which only appears on multi-arch systems btw., see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686124#10 for
reference).

  Regards, Axel
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