[4/9/2008]

Version 0.4.11.2

How far the sky,
how cold the night,
how still the flowing river.
How sharp the air --
so pure the light --
beneath Orion's quiver.
Beneath the frozen, staring,
starry sky we lay a-shiver.

New features:
- The information area can display tabs for the alternative views it supports. This is off by default because I found that it was too intrusive (mainly because it appears between the short and the long description of a package). If cwidget gets the ability to put tabs at the bottom of multiplex widgets, I might change this.
Documentation bugs:
- Fix several XML errors in the manpage source (Closes: bug #473722)
Bug fixes:
- Crashes and serious errors:
  - Make the safe resolver not explode exponentially when new Recommendations are present.
    
    The root cause here was that the mandate mechanism the safe resolver uses to ensure that it progresses monotonically towards a solution didn't work in the presence of Recommends, so the resolver ended up exploring the entire space of possible resolutions to packages' Recommendations. This is the as large as the power set of the list of recommendations, hence the exponential behavior. (Closes: bug #474680)
  - Don't crash if a package's Section is empty. (Closes: bug #474115)
- Cosmetic and UI bugs:
  - The why installed information display in the package list will now display an informative message when no package is selected, the same way that the related dependencies display does.
  - The why installed information display should work better for newly installed packages now.
  - aptitude --version prints more information about the libraries it was compiled against.
  - Help -> About prints a correct copyright date now.
  - The status indicator has been rewritten so that it no longer needs numeric conjugation (meaning it won't say there are 1 update). (Closes: bug #486186 and friends)
  - why and why-not now appear in the list of commands in aptitude --help. (Closes: bug #454088)
- Minor bugs:
  - Use a latch configuration option to migrate from Recommends-Important, instead of just clobbering the old option. (Closes: bug #473872)
  - Treat packages that were removed but whose configuration files remain on the system as if they're not installed in the output of --show-why.
  This fixes some cases where --show-why would hide the reasons for some installations.
Translation updates:
- Galician (Closes: bug #474672)
- Vietnamese (Closes: bug #473719)