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

[Antonio Ospite]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 23:29:27 +0000
"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Thanks Manuel,

I can see the fix at:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/aptitude/aptitude.git/commit/?id=f4742858515a75b94db8448f2723cfafc77721cd

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio

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