[Bug 986636] Re: No aptitude after a debootstrap of precise

[Colin Watson]

Sorry, but we intentionally dropped aptitude from the base system in
Ubuntu 10.10 to make the base system a bit closer to a genuinely minimal
system.  Providing everything people might want isn't a goal here; if
you want aptitude, you can 'apt-get install aptitude' easily enough, as
you observe yourself.  Reducing the footprint of the base system was
more important to us.

** Package changed: debootstrap (Ubuntu) => ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  No aptitude after a debootstrap of precise

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Running something like "debootstrap --arch amd64 precise /somedir/"
  creates a precise pangolin without the aptitude package. Other
  debian/ubuntu releases include this. (I checked lucid and debian
  squeeze)

  Altough it's not a big problem since apt-get and dpkg are installed it
  would be nicer to also have aptitude like before.

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