[Aptitude-devel] Bug#793307: aptitude: Add a confirmation for changing 'automatic' flag

[artem_banschikov]

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

Dear Maintainer,

I occasionally pressed 'm' button when 'All installed packages' item was
choosen, so all my packages were marked as manually installed. 'm' is placed
right under 'j' which is often used for navigation, so occasional
presses on it is a real problem for me. Please, add some kind of
confirmation for changing package 'automatic' flag with 'm' button.
Also, I saw some bugs when aptitude forgets 'automatic' flag for some
packages and I thought some of them may be inspited by occasional 'm' press.


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: rxvt-unicode
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov  8 2014 13:34:39
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 5.9.20150516
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffefdbc2000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f8c8d223000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f8c8cfed000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f8c8cdc3000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f8c8cbbd000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f8c8c8a7000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f8c8c5d9000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f8c8c3c1000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f8c8bfaa000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f8c8bd8d000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f8c8ba81000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8c8b780000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f8c8b56a000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f8c8b1c1000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f8c8afbe000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8c8adba000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8c8ab9f000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f8c8a98f000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f8c8a76c000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f8c8a564000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f8c8a35f000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8c8dbe5000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (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            1.0.9.10
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-4
ii  libc6                     2.19-19
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.1.1-14
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20150516-2
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.10.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.1.1-14
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20150516-2
ii  libxapian22               1.2.21-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-5
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.32

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