[Aptitude-devel] Bug#852271: aptitude --without-recommends documentation correction

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2017-01-23 04:08 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.8.4-1
>File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
>
>The man page needs to be changed to say
>
>       -R, --without-recommends
>           Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new
>           packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
>           ~/.aptitude/config). Packages previously installed due to
>           recommendations will not be removed unless
>           APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant is false.
>
>           This corresponds to the configuration option
>           APT::Install-Recommends.
>

My man page says:

       -R, --without-recommends Do not treat recommendations as
           dependencies when installing new packages (this overrides
           settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
           ~/.aptitude/config). Packages previously installed due to
           recommendations will not be removed.

           This corresponds to the pair of configuration options
           APT::Install-Recommends and
           APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant.

Special attention to the second paragraph.  So your bug report seems to
be incorrect when it comes to the version -- the second paragraph that
you quote is not present for more than a decade:


  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/aptitude/aptitude.git/commit/?id=b95223212e4f86d09007f4f33e4498683c313b7c


(the text morphed a bit since then, from Aptitude::Keep-Recommends to
APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant, but I think that the text as
originally quoted always mentioned more than APT::Install-Recommends
since 2007).

In any case, the suggested text is already present, closing.


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