[Aptitude-devel] Bug#835372: Bug#835372: Bug#835372: aptitude: behavior change with 0.7.6 with packages that can't be installed breaking automated installations

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 01:59:47 +0200, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> said:

    > So let's try to define the exact behaviour needed for automated setups
    > where package lists might be not 100% fit what's available.

    > * Installation requests for packages which don't exist in the package
    >   lists.
    > * Removal and purge request for not installed or non-existent
    >   packages.
    > * Hold requests for not installed packages.

This is missing:
Packages which are in the package list, but do not have an
installation candidate.


For me it's OK to have this as a wishlist bug, but it's very
important, that this option will be implemented for stretch. FAI and
other automated installation systems did not rely on the bad behaviour
of aptitude, but the used this behaviour as a usefull feature.

I would love to see a comment from the aptitude/apt-get developers, if
this new option can be implemented for stretch.
-- 
regards Thomas