[Aptitude-devel] Bug#434352: aptitude: package group sorting in the Preview page

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Vincent,

2007-07-23 10:20 Vincent Lefevre:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.5.4-1
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Concerning the package groups in the Preview page:
>
>--\ Packages being automatically held in their current state
>--\ Packages being deleted due to unsatisfied dependencies
>--\ Packages being held back
>--\ Packages to be installed
>--\ Packages to be upgraded
>
>the order of these groups seems to be undeterministic (in the previous
>invocation of aptitude, "Packages being held back" and "Packages to be
>installed" were swapped). The order should be deterministic and
>
>--\ Packages being automatically held in their current state
>--\ Packages being held back
>
>should be displayed together, and
>
>--\ Packages being deleted due to unsatisfied dependencies
>--\ Packages to be installed
>--\ Packages to be upgraded
>
>(i.e. all the package groups for which there are changes) should also
>be displayed together. Having
>
>--\ Packages being held back
>
>between
>
>--\ Packages being deleted due to unsatisfied dependencies
>
>and
>
>--\ Packages to be installed
>
>(which I currently get) is bad.

Thanks for the suggestion, I think that you are right and this strange
ordering bothered me for quite a long time.

So I had this fix in my todo list for a long time as well, but
circumstances did not allow me to work on it until now.  I commited a
fix so this will be present in the next release, so marking it as
+pending.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>