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aptitude 0.0.6a released, deb packages available

Ok. After much scrambling around and thrashing of my disk drive, I think I've gotten a new release of aptitude out. I've arranged with Adam Heath to handle the Debian packaging of aptitude in the future (ie, for woody); hopefully he'll sponsor uploads of the package. (thanks Adam!) This release adds a couple of nice features, and also seems to bloat the executable by around 200k (I have a few ideas on how to trim this back without making the structure too inflexible -- in fact, some might actually improve the design, yippee :) )
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The only known bug in the current version of the Debian packages is that they might leave /var/state/aptitude behind when you remove them. I'm trying to decide whether this directory should be deleted on any removal of the package, or only when you purge it (and I'm leaning towards the latter) Hopefully I can release a new package soon that addresses this..not sure how this ties in to Sourceforge's release system, though. Maybe I should create another module for debs..
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(end incoherent rambling, I'm way too tired..)
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Daniel

Posted by Daniel Burrows 2000-02-06

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