[Bug 795602] Re: Please SRU aptitude 0.6.3-3.2

[Daniel Hartwig]

> I don't know why this was marked as invalid.  I was requesting the backport
> for Lucid (hence my reference to 4.11).

Description was vague and the SRU procedure had not been followed.  This
will not get noticed by the sru team unless you follow these
instructions, particularly steps 3 and 4:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

Remember to change the status when you do.

** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => Incomplete

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Title:
  Please SRU aptitude 0.6.3-3.2

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I've just run into this nasty bug in aptitude that renders it entirely unusable for me:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580

  There is a workaround, which is to revert to apt-get, which isn't
  broken in this way, however, I'm sure we're not meant to be migrating
  in that direction.

  I'm not sure if this is a security concern, but it certainly has
  potential to cause huge damage, e.g. by allowing installation of
  packages that have been specifically blocked. I ran into this on MySQL
  where it was ignoring a pin that meant it wanted to upgrade from 5.1
  to 5.5 as a regular update, which could be fatal to many apps.

  0.6.3-3.2 is in Natty, but not Maverick, so I guess Maverick suffers
  the same problem. If this backport has too much overhead, is it worth
  reporting as a bug against 4.11 to fix just this problem? The
  alternative is to never use aptitude again!

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