[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816520: aptitude: apt "fancy" progress bar does not work anymore with recent aptitude versions

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi Antonio,

2016-03-02 14:38 Antonio Ospite:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.7.7-1
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>apt has this handy feature of showing a progress bar when installing
>packages, see [1].
>
>AFAIK the feature is enabled by default in recent apt versions but has
>to be enabled explicitly as described in [1] to work with apt-get and
>other programs:
>
> $ sudo sh -c "echo 'Dpkg::Progress-Fancy \"1\";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99progressbar"
>
>This used to work with aptitude too.
>
>I verified that after the command above aptitude on Jessie (0.6.11-1+b1)
>shows the fancy progress bar on the terminal when installing packages.
>
>However, the progress bar does not seem to show anymore with recent
>aptitude versions (0.7.5, 0.7.6 or 0.7.7 as confirmed by mafm on IRC).
>
>Any idea about what may have made it stop working?

This will work again now.

It happened a few versions ago because of adapting aptitude for changes
in apt 1.1 (deprecated function), and using only one type of progress
which the old function uses internally.


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