[Aptitude-devel] Bug#738350: Bug#738350: aptitude: "Reconfiguring" missing in Package submenu

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-02-09 16:41 GMT+00:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>:
>
> 2014-02-09 14:54 Axel Beckert:
>>
>>
>> Axel Beckert wrote:
>>>
>>> In the submenu "Package" there's the Reconfigure feature (reachable via
>>> Shift-R) missing.
>>
>>
>> Actually the controversial "Report Bug" feature (see #463510 for the
>> discussion) is missing there, too.
>
>
> I think that "Run reportbug" is as good as dead, since we all agreed
> in that bug report (I think), and it can be removed in a few minutes.
>
> As I understood it, the issue with "Reportbug" is not only that it
> gets triggered after suspending and arrow down, but that:
>
> - aptitude is often run as root user, so reportbug complains about
>   that,
>
> - and maybe the root user does not export useful env vars for
>   reportbug to use, like DEBMAIL, DEBFULLNAME, REPORTBUGEMAIL, etc.
>
> So I don't think that it's a feature that anybody will miss, and that
> we can remove ASAP.

Removed, see #463510.


> Another option would be to have them in after a separator, like
> "Information", "Cycle package information" and "Changelog".  In fact,
> Changelog is a "immediate" action much like Reportbug, isn't it?
>
> "Information" and "Cycle" are also immediate.
>
> BTW, I think that perhaps "Reconfigure" should not be so immediate,
> and behave like "Reinstall" instead.

What to do about this one?


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