[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1036447: aptitude: Doesn't accept uppercase letters (Y/N) on yes/no questions

[Axel Beckert]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream

On prompts like e.g. "Really quit Aptitude? [n]y", aptitude does not
accept uppercase letters like Y or N as answer.

Originally reported in Ubuntu at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/2020232

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  libapt-pkg6.0             2.6.0
ii  libboost-iostreams1.74.0  1.74.0+ds1-21
ii  libc6                     2.36-9
ii  libcwidget4               0.5.18-6
ii  libgcc-s1                 12.2.0-14
ii  libncursesw6              6.4-4
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.12.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.40.1-2
ii  libstdc++6                12.2.0-14
ii  libtinfo6                 6.4-4
ii  libxapian30               1.4.22-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libdpkg-perl    1.21.22
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.17+nmu1

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.53
ii  aptitude-doc-cs [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-es [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-fi [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-fr [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-it [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-ja [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-nl [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  aptitude-doc-ru [aptitude-doc]  0.8.13-5+abe+test1+bug1032654
ii  debtags                         2.1.5
ii  tasksel                         3.72

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