[Aptitude-devel] Bug#722211: please make aptitude more clever on resolving dependency problems

[Harald Dunkel]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: wishlist

I am working on Unstable, using Testing as a fallback in
my sources.list.

Its hard to reproduce, but when aptitude asks me to resolve
package conflits it presends an endless flow of complex
package sets to keep and downgrade and to remove, instead
of keeping a single package that can still be found in
testing.

It would be very nice if this could be improved, e.g. by
some algorithm looking for the least painful change and
presenting it first.


Regards
Harri