[Aptitude-devel] Bug#430392: aptitude: Please show an error message more later

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending
Control: owner -1 !


Hi Kenshi,

2007-06-24 08:01 Kenshi Muto:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.5.3-1
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Hi,
>
>I found that an novice user had failed to notice about his typo when
>he had tried to install an package with using aptitude (non-interactive
>mode).
>
>That was his failure in fact, but I think aptitude may cause such a
>mistake.
>[...]
>
>It seems bit hard to see why the installation was failed, because
>an error reason was already gone above.
>It would be better if an error message displays after other messages
>such as:
>
>    # aptitude install flashplugin
>    Reading package lists...
>     <snip>
>    Initializing package states...
>    Building tag database...
>
>    No candidate version found for flashplugin
>      flashplugin-nonfree

Thanks for the report.

>From the next version on, aptitude will be more strict and will simply
abort earlier if some of the actions cannot be taken, thus preventing
problems such as the one above.

So I am marking the bug as +pending.


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