[Aptitude-devel] Bug#810221: aptitude: status line lost some information (#Broken:, DL Size)

[Julian Gilbey]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 03:08:41PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> 2016-01-07 12:53 Julian Gilbey:
> >Package: aptitude
> >Version: 0.7.5-3
> >Severity: normal
> >
> >I wonder what has happened to the display recently.  The attached
> >screenshot shows what happens when there are broken package
> >dependencies: #Broken: no longer shows the number, and the DL Size:
> >has no units.  Is this a width issue, or has the status line changed
> >to include more content or something?  These pieces of information are
> >probably more significant than the aptitude version number.  It's in
> >an 80 character wide xfce4 terminal window.
> 
> The main change in the last versions was the inclusion of Hostname by
> default in the header (from requests in other reports).
> 
> I now changed the default widths and expansion/shrinking of the more
> important fields so this will hopefully will not be an issue with
> 80-width terminals.
> 
> The header line can be changed in the options anyway
> (aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format, from the Options menu, command
> line or config file), e.g. to remove the program name or version if you
> don't want it shown.

Thanks Manuel!

   Julian