[Aptitude-devel] Bug#801460: aptitude: Does not show long description anymore

[Matijs van Zuijlen]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.3-1
Severity: normal

Dear maintainer,

Since the upgrade to 0.7.3-1 (I think), aptitude no longer shows the
extended part of the description of the packages. Only the first line is
shown. A check with apt-cache shows the data is still there.

Regards,
Matijs

-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm-256color
$DISPLAY is set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.7.3 compiled at Oct  7 2015 23:33:19
Compiler: g++ 5.2.1 20151003
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.16.0
  NCurses version 6.0
  libsigc++ version: 2.6.1
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20150810
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.16.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffefedf2000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.16 (0x00007f96d7bae000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f96d797e000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f96d7753000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f96d754d000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f96d724e000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f96d6f80000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f96d6d67000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f96d6965000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f96d6747000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f96d63cc000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f96d60cb000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f96d5eb4000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f96d5b0b000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f96d5908000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f96d5703000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f96d54e8000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f96d52d8000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f96d50b4000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f96d4eac000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f96d4ca6000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000056210c551000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.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           0.7.3-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.16            1.0.10.2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-3+b1
ii  libc6                     2.19-22
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-4
ii  libgcc1                   1:5.2.1-21
ii  libncursesw5              6.0+20150810-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.6.1-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.2.1-21
ii  libtinfo5                 6.0+20150810-1
ii  libxapian22v5             1.2.21-1.2

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7.3-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
ii  debtags           2.0.1
pn  tasksel           <none>

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