[Aptitude-devel] Bug#797785: aptitude: TUI to catch debtags warnins/errors

[Pavel Reznicek]

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

Dear Maintainer,

  would it be possible for aptitude in TUI to catch debtags errors/warnings, instead of let them to mess up the interface ? Specifically, I have a problem where certain old (but still usefull) apt-lists contains non-UTF8 characters. That triggers debtags to report a warning that messes up the TUI. It would be nice if aptitude was able to catch such errors and show them in a red dialog instead.

Thanks,
Pavel



-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$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 6.0.20150810
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdf1ff5000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007febbcb6d000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007febbc93d000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007febbc712000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007febbc50c000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007febbc1f6000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007febbbf28000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007febbbd10000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007febbb8f9000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007febbb6db000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007febbb3cf000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007febbb0ce000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007febbaeb7000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007febbab0e000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007febba90b000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007febba706000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007febba4eb000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007febba2db000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007febba0b7000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007febb9eaf000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007febb9ca9000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00005632aed9b000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (840, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (840, 'testing'), (740, 'unstable'), (738, 'experimental'), (540, 'proposed-updates'), (540, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.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              6.0+20150810-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                5.1.1-14
ii  libtinfo5                 6.0+20150810-1
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   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
ii  debtags           2.0+nmu1
ii  tasksel           3.33

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logrotate.d/aptitude changed [not included]

-- no debconf information