[Aptitude-devel] Bug#702185: aptitude: Command for a future installation of a package

[Nicolas Patrois]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

When you want to install a package that is in a more recent version of Debian but not in the one you run and if you are patient enough not to backport, why not adding a new command?
aptitude might have an other command, say will-install or future-install.
Three examples:
"aptitude will-install pygal" creates a fake entry for pygal and will check every update if the package is available or not. If yes, it will propose its installation (or install it without asking if the right checkbox is checked).
"aptitude will-install" prints the wishlist.
"aptitude wont-install pygal" removes the pygal entry.

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov  5 2012 06:20:41
Compiler: g++ 4.7.2
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.2.10
  Ept support enabled.
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404
  cwidget version: 0.5.16
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7879000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb72c8000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7295000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7274000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb726f000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb716f000)
	libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb70dc000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6ef3000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6ed9000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6e28000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6e11000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6df8000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6d0c000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6ce5000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6cc8000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6b65000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6b61000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6b5d000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6b4b000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6b45000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6b3c000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb787a000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.2-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.7
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.2
ii  libc6                     2.13-38
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-5
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-5
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.8.2-1
ii  aptitude-doc-fr [aptitude-doc]  0.6.8.2-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.10.1
ii  tasksel  3.14+nmu1

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