aptitude (0.6.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low Summary: the behavior of "full-upgrade"/"dist-upgrade" has changed in a way that could break scripts. See below for details. This version changes the behavior of the full-upgrade/dist-upgrade command when additional arguments are present. Previous versions of aptitude used the command-line arguments to extend the default upgrade set, so that # aptitude full-upgrade wesnoth would install "wesnoth" while attempting to upgrade all other upgradable packages. In version 0.6.1.4, aptitude now uses the list of packages as the explicit list of upgrades to perform. Thus, the same command # aptitude full-upgrade wesnoth will upgrade wesnoth and not perform any other actions. If wesnoth isn't installed, nothing will happen. To get the old behavior, add "?upgradable" as the first argument following "full-upgrade" and add "+" to the end of each package that had no qualifiers: # aptitude full-upgrade "?upgradable" wesnoth+ -- Daniel Burrows Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:27:30 -0800