[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816781: aptitude: Can not cancel pending upgrade actions

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-03-05 14:10 GMT+00:00 张 敬强 <zh_jq at outlook.com>:
> 在 2016年3月5日星期六 CST 下午1:00:25，Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo 写道：
>> The behaviour has been changed recently, so that when one goes ahead
>> with the installation, the state is saved to more places than aptitude's
>> internal state (e.g. dpkg), on which other tools feed.
>>
>> Since some parts of this state cannot be undone, and since there were
>> other problems associated with this (e.g. removing "hold" state which
>> had been set in previous sessions), "Cancel pending actions" has been
>> changed in 0.7.6 to just cancel pending (as in "not confirmed/saved")
>> actions, rather than marking all packages as "keep" and destroying other
>> things in the way.
>>
>> Perhaps we should change the name of the menu entry to reflect the
>> change of behaviour, but sadly the name fits much better the new
>> behaviour, and the previous behaviour's menu entry should have been
>> named instead "Keep all packages in its current state" or "Reset state
>> of all packages".
>>
>>
>> If you want to go back to the state before confirming the upgrade
>> intentions, you have to mark the packages to be upgraded as "keep".
>>
> Thank you for the explanation, and it's acceptable for me.
> So this bug can be closed.

I think that it's better to leave it open for a while in the case that
people find the same problem.

Thanks for the feedback.


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