[3/30/2008]

Version 0.4.11.1

No, no, fool, I said bring me the FLUFFY Bunny Slippers of EXTREME Dismemberment, not the EXTREME Bunny Slippers of FLUFFY dismemberment! Does an evil overlord have to do everything himself around here?

New features:
- The command-line argument --show-why will cause all installation and removal commands to display a brief summary of the dependencies related to an installation or removal. For instance:
```
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libboost-iostreams1.34.1{a} (for wesnoth)  wesnoth
  wesnoth-data{a} (for wesnoth)  wesnoth-music{a} (for wesnoth)
```
  Note that wesnoth-music is a dependency of wesnoth-data, not wesnoth. --show-why displays the manually installed package behind each automatic installation. If -v is passed on the command-line, it displays the entire chain of dependencies leading to each manual package.
  
  --show-why also handles upgrades:
  
  The following packages will be upgraded: klibc-utils libklibc (for klibc-utils)
  
  --show-why is limited to the capabilities of the logic behind aptitude why. Although libklibc might be the package that was originally marked for upgrade, --show-why has no knowledge of this fact: it just knows that klibc-utils requires libklibc.
- In the ncurses interface, added a menu entry to cycle the display in the lower pane (equivalent to pressing i but more discoverable).
- The ncurses interface now displays the number of packages in a tree next to the tree header, and in the information area when the header is highlighted.
- The header for the list of versions in the ncurses interface now reads Versions of <package> instead of just Versions.
- A new extract-cache-subset command that will create a reduced copy of the package cache, removing all but a given list of packages and all references to packages not in the list. It's intended for, e.g., generating test cases for package managers.
Bug fixes:
- Crashes and serious errors:
  - Handle exceptions thrown by the Debtags constructor (e.g., when debtags has been purged and there are no data files) instead of just crashing. (Closes: bug #472695)
  - Eliminate a case where we would access uninitialized memory while starting up, found thanks to valgrind.
- Cosmetic and UI bugs:
  - Correct the documentation within the on-line help of how to leave the on-line help (it was never updated when the help went from being a dialog to being a top-level view).
  - Correctly save changes to string configuration options. (Closes: bug #471315)
  - Don't print an error on startup when debtags isn't installed. (Closes: bug #472678)
  - Use less technical language when why fails to find a derivation for A transitively requires B.
  - Eliminated some cases where description signals for tree headings weren't being connected. These weren't noticable in the past because in most cases, the heading had no description anyway.
Translation updates:
- The aptitude-defaults.* files are now installed to /usr/share/aptitude. (Closes: bug #472625)
- Simplified Chinese (Closes: bug #458162, bug #473363).
- Vietnamese (Closes: bug #473229)