[Aptitude-devel] Bug#267162: Bug#267162: Bug#267162: marked as done (aptitude: "not installed" not noted upon purge)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-01-24 02:38 Daniel Hartwig:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni at jidanni.org>
>> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:01:49 +0800
>> Subject: aptitude: "not installed" not noted upon purge
>
>>    #  aptitude purge libgd2-xpm
>>    ...
>>    The following packages have been kept back:
>>
>> You forgot the "... is not installed" line!
>>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>
>
>> This bug report was submitted many years ago and never handled.  This
>> does not seem to happen now as described in the bug report (at least
>> in my system, with pretty much the stock configuration).
>
>In the time between the bug report and your testing, it was decided
>that such output is only when --verbose is used.  The inconsistency is
>still there, as confirmed by examination of the code and performing
>the commands with verbose enabled.

That's fine, but nothing of this was explained in the bug report, so
that's why I was asking for reopening or submitting a new bug report
with up to date information to explain the new desired behaviour.


>This issue and other inconsistencies in the command line interface
>will be addressed by an extensive work I have in progress to
>restructure that module, using new tools exported by apt.  The
>foundations of this work was in the 0.6.9 release, but that has been
>reworked and will be applied once the final changes are complete.

I think that it would be useful to document things like this, in bug
reports or elsewhere, and use public branches to know what's going on,
otherwise people will not magically know that things like this are
being worked on.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>