[Aptitude-devel] Bug#808882: Bug#808882: aptitude: restore reasonable ordering of package dependencies

[Axel Beckert]

Control: severity -1 normal

Hi Manuel,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> I noticed this in the package view/screen of curses, under "Packages
> which depend on $blah", Suggests is often (always?) before Recommends,
> which is a bit unexpected for the user.

Hrm, I checked all packages which have an update due on one Testing
and one Unstable box. So it may be consistent per session and I got
two sessions where this was the same by chance.

> I don't remember seeing Conflicts before Recommends, and I have the idea
> of Conflicts being towards the end in most cases.

Interesting.

> Not trying to dispute that it does show like this for you right now,
> but in my system it's not "the same order for all packages" with the
> precedence shown above, so there should be some randomness added to
> the mix.

That's my conclusion from your comments, too. Raising the severity
from wishlist to normal hence, since I consider randomness at this
place a real bug and not just a missing feature.

> All the above sound sensible suggestions.

Ok, so there is a rough consensus on the wanted order. :-)

		Regards, Axel
-- 
 ,''`.  |  Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/
: :' :  |  Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin
`. `'   |  4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329  6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
  `-    |  1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486  202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE