[Aptitude-devel] Bug#806770: aptitude: Command parameter to restore /etc/ configuration files easily

[David Côté-Tremblay]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: newcomer

Dear Maintainer,

If I mess up a config directory in /etc/, there are no easy command to achieve
this !

It would be satisfying if that command would have 1 parameter only instead of
long command not easy to remember:
sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" install --reinstall
<package-name>



-- Package-specific info:
$TERM not set.
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov  8 2014 13:25:38
Compiler: g++ 4.9.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-gate.so.1 (0xb773f000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb7198000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb715c000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7138000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7131000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb702d000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6f54000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0xb6f3c000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6d34000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d18000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c26000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6be0000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6bc3000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6a18000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6a14000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6a0f000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb69f2000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb69df000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xb69b5000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb69ac000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb69a6000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7742000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.8.1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1.1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
pn  apt-xapian-index  <none>
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.31+deb8u1

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