[Bug 1127601] Re: Please backport aptitude 0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1 (main) from quantal

[Iain Lane]

Hi,

Thanks for your request. You'll see that I rewrote the description -
this is according to the output of the 'requestbackport' tool. (For
information the documentation is at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports). It takes the form of a
checklist that shows all of the testing that should be performed before
this backport can be approved - basically, confirm that all of the
packages install and that none of the packages which depend on these
break (give them a small workout to determine this, e.g. install tasksel
with the backported aptitude and see if it works)

Cheers!
Iain

** Description changed:

  Please backport  aptitude 0.6.8.1-2ubuntu1 (main) from quantal to
  precise.
  
  Reason for the backport:
  ========================
  aptitude 0.6.6 as provided with precise does not support multiarch properly. This means that if multiarch is used, aptitude cannot be used properly, and is potentially dangeous because it can suggest bogus package uninstalls. 0.6.8.1 as packaged with quantal solves this problem.
  
  Testing:
  ========
  Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.
  
  You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
- $ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s quantal -d precise apt
  $ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s quantal -d precise aptitude
  
  * precise:
  [ ] Package builds without modification
+ [ ] aptitude-doc-en installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-dbg installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-doc-fi installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-doc-ja installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-common installs cleanly and runs
  [ ] aptitude installs cleanly and runs
- [ ] aptitude-common installs cleanly and runs
- [ ] apt installs cleanly and runs
- [ ] apt-utils installs cleanly and runs
- [ ] libapt-inst1.5 installs cleanly and runs
- [ ] libapt-pkg4.12 installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-doc-fr installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-doc-it installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-doc-es installs cleanly and runs
+ [ ] aptitude-doc-cs installs cleanly and runs
+ 
+ Reverse dependencies:
+ =====================
+ The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of aptitude. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new aptitude. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new aptitude installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.
+ 
+ aptitude-doc-en
+ ---------------
+ 
+ aptitude-dbg
+ ------------
+ 
+ aptitude-doc-fi
+ ---------------
+ 
+ aptitude-doc-ja
+ ---------------
+ 
+ aptitude-common
+ ---------------
+ 
+ aptitude
+ --------
+ * tasksel
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
+ * daptup
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
+ * ppa-purge
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
+ * ibid
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
+ * febootstrap
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Build-Depends)
+ * libguestfs
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Build-Depends)
+ * apt
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
+ * apt-watch-gnome
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Recommends)
+ * wajig
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
+ * pkgsync
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Depends)
+ * dpkg
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Breaks)
+ * fai-server
+   [ ] precise (Reverse-Suggests)
+ 
+ aptitude-doc-fr
+ ---------------
+ 
+ aptitude-doc-it
+ ---------------
+ 
+ aptitude-doc-es
+ ---------------
+ 
+ aptitude-doc-cs
+ ---------------

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