[Bug 1082198] Re: aptitude crashes when "New Categorical Browser" is selected from menu

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> It prevents the package (or a dependent one) from functioning correctly
> at all.
> 
> ** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
>    Importance: Undecided => High

I disagree on both.

The Categorical Browser is a historic feature which is is bound to be
removed from Aptitude and whose functionality has been superseeded by
the Debtags Browser for quite a while now.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717317#16 and
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717317#16 for
reference.

So It's useless to invest time to fix anything in there, except maybe
patching out the menu entry if you really want users not to run into
this issue (which only appears on multi-arch systems btw., see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686124#10 for
reference).

		Regards, Axel
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Title:
  aptitude crashes when "New Categorical Browser" is selected from menu

Status in aptitude:
  Confirmed
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “aptitude” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Everytime "New Categorical Browser" is selected from the menu aptitude
  crashes.

  All other options from the "View" menu seem to work correctly.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: aptitude 0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-3.9-generic 3.7.0-rc6
  Uname: Linux 3.7.0-3-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Nov 22 23:36:10 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-10 (12 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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