This bug was fixed in the package aptitude - 0.6.6-1ubuntu1 --------------- aptitude (0.6.6-1ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes: - debian/05aptitude: Never autoremove kernels. - Drop aptitude-doc to Suggests. - 03_branding: Ubuntu branding. - 04_changelog: Take changelogs from changelogs.ubuntu.com. - 11_ubuntu_uses_sudo: Fix status line of 'Become root' menu entry to not refer to su. - 12_point_manpage_to_doc_package: Point Finnish manpage to the correct place for further info. - 14_html2text_preferred: Switch back to html2text in favor of elinks, since html2text is in main and elinks isn't. - no-google-mock: Don't use google-mock as it and libgtest-dev are in universe. aptitude (0.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. - Basic multi-arch support. See NEWS for details. + add search terms ?architecture and ?multiarch; + add grouping policy 'architecture'; (Closes: #659079, #661744) (LP: #454941, #845136, #884945, #904486) - Apply patch from Ubuntu to fix build -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 errors. Thanks to Colin Watson and Michael Vogt (Closes: #497539) - Remove GTK+ menu entry for minesweeper. (Closes: #552522) - Hack to prevent debug messages dumping to the screen (Closes: #651748) - Fix '?action(upgrade)' and others (were finding kept packages instead). Thanks to 'Rogier' for the patch (Closes: #603862) - List update errors are reported. (Closes: #451137) - List update now runs APT::Update hooks. (Closes: #476399) - Actually silence progress messages with '-q2'. (Closes: #141719) - Fix various locking issues: + '[auto]clean' locks /var/cache/apt/archives; + 'update' locks /var/lib/apt/lists; (Closes: #653479) - Fix 'priority' cost level in resolver. The values should have been negated but were not. Thanks to Modestas Vainius for this one. (Closes: #608786) - Fix some help and prompt strings which wrongly included localized names for commands such as 'why'. (Closes: #486615) - Change ordering of top-level sections to match the order in aptitude::Sections::Top-Sections. The default order is now: main, contrib, non-free. (Closes: #181997) - Improve error messages when parsing grouping policies to use the user-visible names, rather than the internal names. (Closes: #231595) - Change default width of %D, %I, %o, and %Z. Thanks to Michał Kułach for this one. (Closes: #599209) (LP: #741417) - Change default width of %V, %v to 14. This greatly increases the number of versions which will display completely. (Closes: #624542) - 'versions' now groups it's results by 'package:arch' instead of 'package'. - Cleared up grouping, sorting policy error messages. (Closes: #231595) - Minor correction to the user's manual. (Closes: #365485) - Translation updates: + Brazilian Portuguese (Closes: #483964) + Hungarian (Closes: #592468) + Polish (Closes: #659803) + Russian (Closes: #662624) * No longer supplying aptitude-gtk. It can still be compiled from the source but this was an experimental interface that was never finished. Anyone interested in continuing either of the GTK+ or Qt interfaces should contact the mailing list: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel - Dropped Build-Depends: needed only for aptitude-gtk. * Enable build hardening. * Bump debian/compat to level 9, use dh_auto_configure. - Adds cross build support. (Closes: #465076) * Add empty build-arch, build-indep targets. (Closes: #648490) * Extend aptitude-doc-* packages to include a more complete description of the program. * Update README.Debian with details of Git repository. * Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck to disable tests. -- Colin Watson