[Aptitude-devel] Bug#677551: Let's get rid of libept

[Daniel Hartwig]

tags 501732 + pending
tags 504153 + pending
tags 677551 + pending
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On 15 June 2012 02:33, Enrico Zini <enrico at debian.org> wrote:
> aptitude doesn't need libept for much, and I'd love it if its dependency tree
> were simplified by getting rid of it. See also #540218.
>
> I reviewed aptitude's use of libept and I'm suggesting alternate
> implementations, but I regret I'm not in a position at the moment to also take
> care of patching and testing aptitude.

Managed to update the non-ept debtags support to get it in to decent
shape and drop a lot of the alternate code for ancient stuff.  Results
are working well, with fallback to reading tags from the Packages if
the debtags database is not available.

Could use some more polishing, but this is better than any of the old
code paths were.

Libept use is now disabled by default and not a dependency for 0.6.9.

Regards