Hi,

Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???> writes:

> Hi,
>
> ..a wee heads-up from today's run of how-can-i-help:
> "== How can you help? (doc: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help) ==
>
> New packages going to be removed from Debian 'testing' (the maintainer
> might need help):
>
> - aptitude - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/aptitude - removal on
> 2023-12-18

Just as I was thinking of giving it a try again, after like a decade or
so ;-)

I had a peek at the tracker as to why it would be removed. Apparently,
it is caused by a bug filed against elinks, which is, again apparently,
a transitive dependency for aptitude.

I haven't been able to confirm that dependency (on amd64). Moreover, a
NMU for that elinks bug has been uploaded to the DELAYED/5 queue on
2023-11-17 and was accepted into unstable on 2023-11-22. Barring any
showstoppers, it should migrate to testing before the end of the month.
That would remove the issue for aptitude and get rid of the autoremoval,
I think.

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen