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+[9/30/2005]
+Version 0.3.4                           "Up The Airy Mountain"
+
+- New features:
+
+  * The solution examiner is now a view coequal with package trees and
+    other views rather than a pop-up dialog box.
+
+  * From the solution examiner, you can select individual actions
+    within a solution and approve or reject them to influence the
+    future course of the resolver; you can also access quite a bit
+    more information, such as explanations of why actions were
+    included in the solution and alternatives to the actions.
+
+  * Rebalanced the default resolver weights to focus it more on
+    generating a solution quickly and less on generating a "good"
+    solution.
+
+  * The problem resolver now understands about Recommendations.  It
+    will try to solve Recommendations that are currently satisfied or
+    that are only present in a newly installed version of a package
+    and not the current version, but it can also leave them broken
+    (with a penalty to the resulting solution).
+
+  * The visual mode of the program is now threaded: in particular,
+    long-running tasks such as downloading packages and resolving
+    dependencies are run in the background and no longer cause the
+    interface to become nonresponsive.
+
+    This also eliminates the need to use recursive main loops, and
+    hence this Closes: #136973.
+
+  * Holds are now implicitly cancelled by the "Keep" command in visual
+    mode (but not from the command line). (Closes: #326949)
+
+  * Search patterns now treat whitespace as a term separator (but
+    whitespace between a pattern code and its argument is ignored).
+    To search for literal whitespace, use double quotes or
+    tilde-escaping.
+
+  * You can now search for text in internal text pagers (for instance,
+    when viewing a package's Changelog).
+
+  * A generic grouping policy based on search patterns is available.
+    (Closes: #156065)
+
+  * Selecting a package version other than the current version and the
+    default candidate version explicitly is now sticky. (Closes:
+    #158771)
+
+  * Debtags support is available: tags are shown after a package's
+    description, you can search for them (~G), and a tag-based grouping
+    policy is available. (Closes: #243830)
+
+  * More predefined package views are available: a flat view and a
+    view based on debtags.
+
+  * The command-line now has "keep" and "keep-all" commands (the
+    latter cancels all sticky actions that are queued on packages).
+    (Closes: #312923)
+
+  * From the command-line, changelogs can be downloaded by source
+    package name in addition to the binary package name.
+
+  * The command-line option "--schedule-only" will write the
+    commands you ask for to the database and then exit without
+    downloading, installing, or removing anything.  (Closes: #312249)
+
+  * You can search both backwards and forwards (the backslash key
+    has been changed from 'repeat last search' to 'search backwards').
+    (Closes: #323239)
+
+  * You can repeat searches in all pagers and dialogs.
+    (Closes: #270699)
+
+  * You can now find downgraded packages using "~adowngrade".
+
+  * aptitude now works with the apt status reporting patch from
+    Michael Vogt.
+
+  * The rather useless "missing" grouping policy is no longer
+    necessary and has been deprecated, although it is still recognized
+    by the parser for backwards-compatibility.
+
+  * You can now access the default background color under the name
+    "default" when altering styles.
+
+    The default foreground color is unavailable; for technical reasons
+    it's impossible for aptitude to support both at once in a standard
+    X terminal.  However, I believe that most of the requests for this
+    feature stemmed from an interest in terminals with transparent
+    backgrounds; if you set the default widget style to "bg default;",
+    aptitude should work reasonably well with transparent terminals
+    now.  (Closes: #161872)
+
+  * Every combination of the package state and the highlighted status
+    of the package now has a separate style, which should allow a
+    great deal more flexibility for people who don't like the
+    defaults.
+
+  * aptitude now automatically keeps a single backup of the pkgstates
+    file, in the same manner as dpkg. (Closes: #316460)
+
+  * Warn the user once when they modify the cache while the program is
+    in read-only mode.  (Closes: #175408)
+
+  * The resolver keystroke hints at the bottom of the screen dim out
+    when they're not available.
+
+  * Menus and menu bars behave more gracefully on small terminals:
+    menus can be scrolled up and down, and menu bars can be scrolled
+    left and right.
+
+  * You can automatically purge packages which are removed because
+    they are unused.  This option is dangerous and it is recommended
+    that you leave it off.  (Closes: #275150)
+
+  * Timestamps in the aptitude log file include the time zone.
+    (Closes: #318501)
+
+  * If libparse-debianchangelog-perl is installed, aptitude will parse
+    changelogs and highlight newer versions of the package. (Closes:
+    #290692)
+
+- Bug fixes:
+
+  * aptitude no longer goes bonkers when you suspend and resume it.
+    (Closes: #137311, #169479)
+
+  * Use the password database instead of $HOME to find the user's home
+    directory; this will fix the mode 0700 root-owned files that
+    people were seeing.  (Closes: #272429, #274216, #285334)
+
+  * Temporary files and directories are created in /tmp instead of
+    cluttering ~/.aptitude/.tmp. (Closes: #146485, #245348)
+
+  * If becoming root fails, re-load the file containing the current
+    selections so that they don't get lost. (Closes: #281232)
+
+  * ~akeep now matches any package that no action will be performed
+    on, including packages that are not installed.
+
+  * The apt error dialog now properly appears every time errors occur.
+
+  * Fix several UTF-8 related display bugs. (Closes: #317115)
+
+  * The cursor is now placed correctly again.
+
+  * Get the width of the screen right in a number of places when
+    running in command-line mode. (Closes: #230187)
+
+  * Set packages that were to be removed because they were unused back
+    to manual mode when the user keeps them at their current
+    version. (Closes: #278490)
+
+  * Various bugs in the resolver fixed.
+
+  * Fix a crash that occurred when aptitude got EOF on standard input;
+    the program now just aborts. (Closes: #318749)
+
+  * Fix a redundancy in some text at the command line. (Closes: #318396)
+
+  * Don't segfault if errors are encountered in the initialization
+    routines. (Closes: #309445)
+
+  * When there are currently broken packages, print an explanation of
+    why the command-line upgrade is aborting instead of just silently
+    terminating. (Closes: #316027)
+
+  * Fix the return value of 'aptitude clean'. (Closes: #274098)
+
+  * Terminate abnormally if the user tries to show a non-existant
+    package or if other errors come up. (Closes: #301291)
+
+  * The startup progress bar no longer hangs around too long.
+
+  * The message displayed when the installation procedure encounters
+    errors is somewhat more levelheaded. (Closes: #230188)
+
+  * Add support for making the command-line mode "quiet" (option -q).
+    (Closes: #217477)
+
+  * If -s is passed on the command-line, the cache will always be
+    opened read-only, even if the user is root.
+
+  * Hold onto the apt lock while running reportbug, so we don't have
+    to reload the cache and discard user selections. (Closes: #304748)
+
+  * Don't use terminal tricks to display continually updating progress
+    indicator if stdin is not a tty. (Closes: #276767)
+
+  * For some years now, aptitude has not freed memory belonging to
+    widget objects.  This is now fixed, and an explicit memory
+    management model for widgets based on reference-counting has been
+    hammered out.
+
+  * Fix the manpage's SEE ALSO entry for the reference manual.
+    (Closes: #265723)
+
+  * Apply typo fixes for the documentation. (Closes: #268916)
+
+  * Explicitly document that ~a only matches the current state of a
+    package. (Closes: #311290)
+
+  * Delete some unnecessary text that both lacks a trailing newline
+    and is rather rude. (Closes: #295924)
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Czech (Closes: #330014)
+
+  * Danish (Closes: #317824)
+
+  * Finnish (Closes: #316225)
+
+  * French (Closes: #318906)
+
+  * Romanian (Closes: #318947)
+
+  * Vietnamese (Closes: #316994, #319702, #322276)
+
+- Internal changes:
+
+  * Migrated all build scripts to automake-1.9 and the latest gettext
+    version.
+
+  * Restructured the resolver code to be far more legible.
+
+  * Much optimization of the problem resolver, including:
+    - Detect logical conflicts to avoid going down the same blind
+      alleys over and over.
+
+    - Use shared-memory data structures to greatly decrease virtual
+      memory usage (memory usage in test cases that used to take
+      hundreds of megabytes is now negligible).
+
+    - When ordering solutions, use the score first (since it's
+      essentially a hash of the information in the solution), and only
+      examine the incoming solutions in their entirety if they have
+      the same score.
+
+  * Split the horrible download code into a much more pleasant group
+    of "download process" classes with an interface that's generic
+    enough to allow the frontend to implement a general "execute
+    download process" function.  The new download classes were pushed
+    down into the generic level.
+
+  * Split generic/ into generic/util and generic/apt.
+
+  * Restructured the way grouping policies and matchers are parsed to
+    allow them to work together without unpleasant surprises.
+
+  * A test suite (based on cppunit) is now available; most of the
+    tests are currently of backend code.
+
+  * Most dynamic casting in menu_tree was eliminated; now it just
+    checks whether the selected item implements the menu_redirect
+    interface and proxies for it (as far as the package and solution
+    item menu commands go) if so.
+
+  * Exceptions can now dynamically generate a program backtrace --
+    however, in order for this to be useful, you have to have many
+    more symbols compiled into the program (in tests, this DOUBLED the
+    final executable size).  To get a binary that will generate a
+    backtrace for uncaught exceptions, compile with
+    --enable-dynamic-backtrace.
+
+[7/4/2005]
+Version 0.3.3         "Universal Text Format Ate My Package Manager"
+
+- New features:
+
+  * Full support for UTF-8 and other wide character locales.  Anything
+    that doesn't work (aside from bug #316663 in curses) is a bug.
+    Some languages might lack full support, as I'm releasing this
+    before the translators have time to catch up!
+
+  * Colors and text styles are now selected in a much more flexible
+    way.  Each visual can independently alter or override each setting
+    of its surrounding text.  Foreground and background colors can be
+    set independently.
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Chinese (Simplified) (Closes: #314330)
+
+  * Chinese (Traditional) (Closes: #311587)
+
+  * Czech (Closes: #314328)
+
+  * Dutch (Closes: #315376, #316279)
+
+  * Finnish (Closes: #312311, #313450)
+
+  * German (Closes: #313663)
+
+  * Lithuanian (Closes: #314643)
+
+  * Norwegian Bokmal (Closes: #313459)
+
+  * Norwegian nynorsk (Closes: #315988)
+
+  * Polish (Closes: #315338)
+
+  * Portuguese (Closes: #315486)
+
+  * Russian (Closes: #313619)
+
+  * Slovak (Closes: #309824)
+
+  * Spanish (Closes: #313412)
+
+  * Vietnamese (Closes: #313321)
+
+- Bug fixes:
+
+  * Fix a case where different packages would be selected on startup
+    than on shutdown. (Closes: #315359)
+
+  * Fix several longstanding coding errors that caused the progress
+    bar to disappear/freeze while the program was starting up.
+
+  * Don't crash when trying to display information about packages
+    with no Archive.  (Closes: #312533)
+
+  * Allow the user to cancel a media change.  (Closes: #315885)
+
+  * Be more explicit in warning the user that they are in read-only
+    mode.  (Closes: #313417)
+
+  * Typo fix in cmdline_prompt (Closes: #313322)
+
+  * Adjusted the input polling frequency in the download code; the
+    program should feel a bit more responsive while it's downloading.
+
+[5/1/2005]
+Version 0.3.2         "Eat cold logic, feeble dependency problem!"
+
+- New features:
+
+  * Finally tossed the APT problem resolver over the side.  aptitude
+    now has its own problem resolver, with (among other things) the
+    following features:
+
+      - It's restartable and nondestructive -- meaning that if you
+        don't like its suggestion, you can ask it to find another one.
+
+      - It understands how to resolve dependencies by installing
+        non-default package versions.  For instance, it can figure out
+        that to install aptitude from experimental, you need to also
+        install apt and synaptic from experimental (if unstable's
+        synaptic is installed).
+
+      - The priorities of the resolver are fully configurable; see the
+        configuration file section of the reference manual.
+
+      - It's generic: in theory you could apply the code to many
+        package systems, including some that are not APT-based.
+
+      - It has a formal model of dependencies underlying it; see
+        src/generic/problemresolver/model.tex (although not all my
+        notes have migrated into the LaTeX source yet; this will be
+        fixed in the future).
+
+  * Implemented my proposed description formatting extensions of
+    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/03/msg02770.html --
+    aptitude now detects and appropriately formats most bulleted
+    lists in package descriptions.
+
+  * From the confirmation prompt (and now the resolver prompt) of the
+    command-line mode, you can now additionally keep packages back
+    (without setting a hold), mark packages as automatic or manual,
+    and simultaneously install a package and mark it as manual.
+
+  * ~ahold now matches only packages that have a "sticky" hold set.
+    ~akeep will find packages upon which no action is being taken.  To
+    get the old behavior of ~ahold, use ~U~akeep.  (Closes: #216730)
+
+  * A brief summary of the currently-open views now appears at the top
+    of the screen when multiple views are open.
+
+  * Merged command-line support for apt-secure from 0.2.15.9.
+
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * Don't discard messages about how to resolve a problem with loading
+    the cache file.  In particular, the dialog box that you get if
+    dpkg was interrupted should make a lot more sense.
+    (Closes: #160418)
+
+  * Actually process the message about failed downloads using fragf.
+    (Closes: #298713)
+
+  * Fix the "help crashes" bug.  (Closes: #293935, plus all the other
+    bugs reported by people who don't check the BTS first)
+
+  * Hard-wrap, don't clip, long literally formatted lines (in
+    accordance with Policy).
+
+  * Text in a number of places is now automatically formatted instead
+    of having hard-wired line wrapping.
+
+  * Fixed the formatting and size calculation of fragments even in the
+    presence of indentation.
+
+  * Made the description widget (and other similar widgets) actually
+    cache its formatting, rather than recalculating it every time the
+    screen is redrawn.
+
+  * Centralized the detection of the terminal width when running in
+    command-line mode; previously, some commands would properly wrap
+    text, but others wouldn't.
+
+  * Don't abort, just print a warning if the user passes -s in
+    interactive mode.  (Closes: #243192)
+
+  * Fixed an ugly problem with the docbook documentation -- instead of
+    using the DTD on the user's system, it was loading it off the net
+    (merged from the stable branch).
+
+  * Correct the documentation of Delete-Unused (merged from stable).
+
+[1/10/2005]           "Ow, my thesis!
+                       That's funny, it didn't hurt that time..."
+
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * (sort of) fixed a bug which caused aptitude to want to remove
+    stuff installed with another package manager.  In order to trigger
+    this, you would have to remove the package with aptitude, quit
+    aptitude without installing or removing anything else, then
+    install the package in the other package manager before running
+    aptitude again.
+
+    The caveat on the fix is that if you ^C aptitude between removing
+    the package and reloading the cache, you can still get bitten.  A
+    more proper fix may be included in a future aptitude version.
+
+- New features:
+
+  * By default, aptitude will only pause after a download if errors
+    occured.  Both of the old settings (always/never pause) are still
+    available.
+
+  * "autoclean" will tell you how much stuff it cleaned up.  For
+    technical reasons, "clean" cannot easily produce the same
+    information.
+
+- Internal changes:
+
+  * Ported aptitude to libsigc++ 2.0.
+
+  * Various bits of text are now displayed as fragments instead of
+    labels, so they get properly word-wrapped and so on.  This work is
+    ongoing and has revealed some structural weaknesses in fragments
+    that need to be fixed before entrenching them too much.
+
+[12/21/2004]
+Version 0.3.0         "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow"
+
+  This is the first release of a new development branch, forked from 0.2.15.8.
+
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * The buttons in the search dialog are properly centered.
+
+  * Internal errors that are generated because of bad formatting
+    characters are less cryptic.
+
+- New features:
+
+  * Support for apt 0.6's security features: aptitude will flag
+    packages that are untrusted, and will warn you if you try to
+    install an untrusted package or upgrade from a trusted to an
+    untrusted version.  The warnings are currently quite obtrusive and
+    strongly worded, and cannot be turned off.
+
+- Internal changes:
+
+  * Completely redesigned widget layout to better accomodate widgets
+    whose width and height are interrelated.  The new system
+    completely allocates widths before allocating heights, allowing
+    stuff like word-wrapped text to be handled sanely.
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Arabic [NEW]
+
+  * Basque (Closes: #275704)
+
+  * Brazilian Portuguese (Closes: #275220)
+
+  * Chinese (Simplified)
+
+  * Chinese (Traditional) (Closes: #274268)
+
+  * Czech
+
+  * Danish
+
+  * Finnish
+
+  * French [now includes translated manual] (Closes: #274953)
+
+  * German (Closes: #283546)
+
+  * Hebrew [NEW] (Closes: #275266)
+
+  * Lithuanian (Closes: #280049)
+
+  * Norwegian Bokmal
+
+  * Polish (Closes: #265481)
+
+  * Romanian (Closes: #281531)
+
+  * Slovak (Closes: #279559)
+
+  * Spanish
+
+  * Turkish (Closes: #280009)
+
+[3/26/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.9      "I see you see we all see C see sea"
+- Bugfixes:
+  * Correct the English documentation of Aptitude::Delete-Unused;
+    its description of this option's behavior was exactly the
+    reverse of what actually happens!
+
+  * Fix a trivial typo that caused an unsightly disfigurement
+    of the Search dialog.
+
+- Backports from aptitude 0.3.x:
+  * aptitude now compiles cleanly against APT 0.6, with full support
+    for package trust.
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Arabic
+
+  * Basque (Closes: #275704)
+
+  * Chinese, Simplified
+
+  * Chinese, Traditional (Closes: #274268, #290284)
+
+  * Czech
+
+  * Danish
+
+  * Dutch (Closes: #288815)
+
+  * Finnish
+
+  * French (Closes: #274953)
+    Includes a new user's manual.
+
+  * German (Closes: #283546, #293127)
+
+  * Hebrew (Closes: #275266)
+
+  * Lithuanian (Closes: #280049)
+
+  * Norwegian Bokmal
+
+  * Polish (Closes: #265481)
+
+  * Portuguese, Brazilian (Closes: #275220)
+
+  * Romanian (Closes: #281531)
+
+  * Slovak (Closes: #279559)
+
+  * Spanish
+
+[9/28/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.8      "UTF-what?"
+- Bugfixes:
+  * Patch from Konstantinos Margaritis to "fix" the UTF-8 problem with
+    a sledgehammer: if aptitude sees UTF-8 in the locale, it will
+    set the locale to C instead.
+
+  * Under "Suggested packages", only show packages that something suggests.
+    (previously, other relationships -- such as Replaces or Conflicts --
+     were causing stuff to end up there).  (Closes: #270667)
+
+  * Belatedly apply a very old patch to improve saving Minesweeper games
+    and to add some sanity-checks to Minesweeper.  (Closes: #179533)
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * French (Closes: #272824)
+
+  * Italian (Closes: #265243)
+
+  * Japanese (Closes: #272454)
+
+  * Russian
+
+[9/17/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.7      "Kerplop"
+- Bugfixes:
+  * Use the candidate version to look for stuff to install; this makes
+    installation via patterns work better.
+
+  * Parse priority strings up-front, and accept either an English string
+    or the string in the current locale.
+
+  * Fixed a segfault that occured if the %r escape was used.
+
+  * Fix several potential (unreported, perhaps un-triggerable) segfaults
+    in the table code.
+
+  * Various documentation fixes (Closes: #269102, #269100).
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Brazilian (Closes: #271411)
+
+  * Catalan (Closes: #270917)
+
+  * Finnish (Closes: #263313)
+
+  * French (Closes: #270713)
+
+  * Greek (Closes: #265006)
+
+  * Italian (Closes: #268263)
+
+  * Japanese (Closes: #264867)
+
+  * Norwegian (Closes: #269976)
+
+  * Russian (Closes: #266294)
+
+  * Spanish (Closes: #269311)
+
+[8/6/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.6      "Brrrrrrr"
+- Bugfixes:
+  * When displaying the size change in a single version, use '+'
+    for increases and '-' for decreases rather than the other
+    way around.
+
+  * "make install" installs localized manpages in $mandir now (thanks
+    to Sebastian Kapfer for pointing out that this wasn't happening)
+
+- Translation updates:
+  * Czech (Debian bug #262524)
+
+  * Danish (Debian bug #262129)
+
+  * Dutch (Debian bug #262000)
+
+  * Finnish (Debian bug #263313)
+
+  * German (Debian bug #262534)
+
+  * Italian (Debian bug #261819)
+
+  * Portuguese (Debian bug #261502)
+
+[7/25/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.5      "Is it just me, or is it freezing in here?"
+- New features and bugfixes:
+
+  - 'aptitude moo' no longer insults the user, even under extreme provocation.
+
+  - It is now possible to log to multiple destinations. (Debian bug #259714)
+
+  - A format code (%i) has been added to display policy information about
+    package versions (ie, the priority to which they are pinned).
+    (Debian bug #240423)
+
+  - An option has been added which disables some of the sanity checks
+    performed prior to installing packages: the program will proceed
+    to the preview screen if any packages are upgradable, even if they
+    aren't being upgraded. (Debian bug #260590)
+
+  - Undoing "forget new" works again.
+
+  - Scrolling in pagers scrolls by the correct amount now. (Debian bug #260713)
+
+  - You can once again enter an empty limit string to reset the limit.
+    (Debian bug #260244)
+
+  - Changed (completely useless at the moment) creation of a pthreads
+    mutex to compile on FreeBSD.
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  - Brazilian (Debian bug #260953)
+
+  - Catalan (Debian bug #261095)
+
+  - Czech (Debian bug #259966)
+
+  - Dutch (Debian bug #260632)
+
+  - Italian (Debian bug #261017)
+
+  - Greek (Debian bug #261029)
+
+  - Portuguese (Debian bug #261425)
+
+[7/15/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.4      "Flying Space Cucumber"
+- New features:
+
+  * Recommended (but not installed) packages are shown in both previews
+    now.
+
+  * Suggests-Important is back as a synonym for Keep-Suggests.  This
+    should smooth out the transition for people who were using it.
+    (Debian bug #259387)
+
+  * Changelogs can be viewed from the command-line.
+
+  * When downloading a package from the command-line, you can select
+    the version to be downloaded. (Debian bug #160145)
+
+  * Added a menu/keyboard command to search for the next broken package.
+    (Debian bug #162474)
+
+  * Extended the package menu with options to manipulate a package's
+    automatic flag, view its information, or view its changelog.
+
+  * Dependency patterns can now match on any dependency field; see the
+    documentation for details.
+
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * Several potential and actual memory leaks in the command-line code
+    were fixed.
+
+  * The command-line mode now complains loudly in some places where it
+    used to fail silently.
+
+[7/13/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.3      "Release Roulette"
+- New features:
+
+  * When displaying aptitude's explanations about dependency
+    situations, packages that are unavailable will be marked as such.
+
+  * Some messages from the command-line mode (eg, about packages that
+    are already installed/removed) are now suppressed unless you pass
+    -v on the command-line.
+
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * Document the Yes/No commands.
+
+  * Return the newest version available from visible_version(), which
+    should make changelog viewing and a few other things work in a
+    less obscure fashion.
+
+  * Correctly initialize the menu autohide setting (Debian bug #258688).
+
+  * Suppress self-conflicts more vigorously (Debian bug #258533).
+
+  * Fixed a number of bugs related to undos; they should work much better
+    now (in particular, undoing an upgrade command will work reliably).
+
+  * The tracking of automatic packages is somewhat smarter about
+    versions: if upgrading a package causes it to become unused, it
+    will be held back; if a package is being removed because it is
+    unused and something depending on its current version is
+    installed, the package will be held even if it could be
+    upgraded. (say that five times fast!)
+
+    Basically, aptitude won't randomly remove packages that you try to
+    upgrade because they're suddenly "unused"; instead, it will refuse
+    to upgrade them.
+
+- Translation/i18n updates:
+
+  * Miroslav Kure heroically translated the entire DocBook manual into
+    Czech, along with general updates to the Czech translation.
+
+  * The keybindings for Yes and No are now translatable (Debian bug #258409).
+
+  * Split the English manpage into a separate XML file (Debian bug #259089).
+
+  * Brazilian translation update (Debian bug #258667).
+
+  * Greek translation update (Debian bug #258805).
+
+  * French translation update.
+
+  * Spanish translation update from Rubes Porras (Debian bug #258243).
+
+[7/7/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.2      "Configure this!"
+- New features:
+
+  * Added a configuration option Aptitude::Keep-Suggests.  This will
+    cause automatically installed packages to stay on the system if
+    any installed package even Suggests them.
+
+  * Added a command-line argument -o; this behaves in the same way as
+    the apt-get -o command-line argument.
+
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * Fixed a very old bug in configuration handling.  This version of
+    aptitude will only save configuration options that you have
+    modified in your personal file.  (this includes options that you
+    changed and re-set to their default values) This means that future
+    changes in aptitude's default settings will be picked up by most
+    people; right now you will only see changes to the defaults if
+    you've never used an Options dialog.  You may want to revert your
+    options to the defaults to take advantage of this feature.
+
+     (Debian bug #175409)
+
+  * Fixed the manpage synopsis: it said forbid-upgrade instead of
+    forbid-version. (Debian bug #257901)
+
+  * Removed an accent that accidentally crept into an image filename
+    in the documentation.
+
+  * In the Vertical-Split theme, version numbers are hidden by default
+    (there isn't room for them on a standard terminal)
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Updated Finish translations (Debian bug #257902)
+
+  * Updated Italian translations (Debian bug #257710)
+
+[7/4/2004]
+Version 0.2.15.1      "Obligatory July 4th reference"
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * Fix a segfault that occured in certain (undetermined) circumstances:
+    a codepath that never ran on my computer would inevitably dereference
+    NULL.
+
+  * Include all the screen-shot images.
+
+[7/1/2004]
+Version 0.2.15        "Daniel's Adventures in the Land of DocBook"
+
+- New features:
+
+  * aptitude now has a "proper" manual, or at least the first iteration
+    of one.  It weighs in at ~7000 lines of DocBook (which is less
+    impressive than it sounds, since most lines of DocBook are fluff)
+    and generates HTML pages, text documentation, and a manpage from
+    a single source.
+
+  * You can now keep a package at its current version without setting a
+    sticky hold by pressing ':'.
+
+  * A new %-escape for the display format, %Z, has been added.  It
+    displays the change in disk usage due to an individual package (or
+    version); the default package format uses it.
+
+  * Several new menus added: you can now change a package's state or
+    search for a package from the menu.
+
+  * A convenient keybinding for reporting a bug has been added.
+
+  * Matchers for reverse dependencies are now much more powerful;
+    matchers for reverse and forward provides are available.
+
+  * Passing -v to an installation command will display packages that are
+    suggested and won't be installed.
+
+  * You can now retrieve information about a package from the command-line
+    mode's prompt.
+
+  * "aptitude show" will display a package's Essential flag.
+
+  * The new "--visual-preview" command-line option uses the visual mode
+    to handle previews and downloads for command-line actions.
+    (Debian bug #253335)
+
+  * aptitude should now display translated task descriptions; thanks
+    to Denis Barbier.
+    (Debian bug #203725)
+
+- Bugfixes:
+
+  * aptitude now handles limits that match no packages more gracefully.
+
+  * All traces of Suggests-Important were removed. (Debian bug #245410)
+
+  * aptitude should compile with g++ 3.4 now.
+
+  * aptitude now looks for unused packages on startup, so the old behavior
+    (where some package states would be illogical and "snap" to the correct
+    values as soon as you did anything) no longer occurs.
+
+  * Handling of automatic/manual packages was tweaked in a few other
+    ways; handling of automatically changed packages was also tweaked.
+
+  * Completely disabled the use of the severely broken non-hierarchical
+    view; the categorical browser just uses a hierarchical display now.
+    (Debian bugs #120978, #144079, #144083, #151437, #242397)
+
+  * Undoing the "forbid upgrade" command should work in all cases now.
+
+  * Removed trailing periods from all menu item descriptions.
+    (Debian bug #244676)
+
+  * Fixed compilation on all 5 existing ia64 systems (Debian bug #243932).
+
+  * If the user tries to remove an essential package but then cancels
+    the removal, aptitude no longer displays an ominous warning about
+    removing essential packages.  (Debian bug #254422)
+
+  * Fixed the display of ORed dependencies in "aptitude show".
+    (Debian bug #254740)
+
+  * Menus are now sized more intelligently; text within menus is laid
+    out slightly better.
+
+  * When a very narrow terminal is being used, menus should be displayed
+    a bit more gracefully.
+
+  * Fixed some bugs with rebinding keys.
+
+  * Removed references to some obsolete (unused) keybindings and colors.
+
+  * There is now a space between the current and candidate versions in
+    the default display format.
+
+  * Widget alignment within a row is now written as "top" and
+    "bottom", not "left" and "right".
+
+  * Reverting options affects the user's configuration file
+    immediately.
+
+  * "aptitude show" no longer performs a search unless the input
+    contains a tilde.
+
+  * Fixed the display of ORed dependencies when describing reasons
+    for a package's state. (Debian bug #242663)
+
+  * Improved the calculation of reasons for a package's state in the
+    presence of virtual packages. (Debian bug #244817)
+
+- Translations:
+
+  * Basque updates (Debian bug #244858)
+
+  * Brizilian updates (Debian bug #242332)
+
+  * Catalan updates (Debian bug #248764)
+
+  * Czech updates (Debian bug #243728, #256326)
+
+  * Danish updates (Debian bug #244539)
+
+  * Dutch updates (Debian bug #249405)
+
+  * German updates (Debian bug #233917, #255396)
+
+  * Italian updates (Debian bug #244679)
+
+  * Japanese updates (Debian bug #250023)
+
+  * Lithuanian updates (Debian bug #242815)
+
+  * Norwegian Bokmal translation added (Debian bug #250500, #252507)
+
+  * Polish updates (Debian bug #248365)
+
+  * Portugese updates (Debian bug #242309, #242372, #244850, #245699)
+
+  * Russian added (Debian bug #250498)
+
+  * Traditional Chinese translation added (Debian bug #244359)
+
+[4/03/2004]
+Version 0.2.14.1      "Spit and polish"
+
+Thanks to Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> for helping to triage
+the large pile of new and updated translations that appeared in this
+release.
+
+- Bugfixes and new features:
+
+  * You can now forbid aptitude to automatically select a particular
+    package version in an upgrade.  This is mainly meant to make
+    situations where a known-bad package is in unstable easier to handle.
+    This functionality can be accessed via "F" in visual mode, or via
+    the "forbid-version" command-line action.
+
+  * Several more improvements to how autoinstalled packages are
+    handled.  In particular, you no longer have to chase the whole
+    dependency tree if you de-select and then re-select a package with
+    many autoinstalled dependencies.
+
+  * Save whether packages are currently going to be upgraded in the
+    state file (separately from whether the package should be
+    installed at all).
+
+  * If the preview screen will be empty, an explanatory dialog is
+    displayed instead of a blank screen.  If it looks like the user
+    just forgot to press "U", suggest that.
+
+  * Added a "reinstall" command-line action. (Debian bug #240225)
+
+  * Added a "%t" formatting escape which displays the Archive of a package.
+    In addition, "aptitude show" with verbosity>1 will display Archive
+    information. (Debian bug #113354)
+
+  * aptitude now supports the Key attribute of tasks (Debian bug #202781)
+
+  * Fixed fetching ChangeLogs for classes with epoched versions and
+    for non-free/contrib packages.  (Debian bugs #237340, #233855)
+
+  * Manpage proofreading and polishing from Danilo Piazzalunga.
+    The reference to apt-get(8) has been corrected, and -t is documented.
+    (Debian bugs #198891, #225053)
+
+  * Fixed the names of download views in the View menu.
+    (Debian bug #234041)
+
+  * Use fragment-based layout instead of a vs_pager to display error
+    messages.  This means that they will wrap to the terminal
+    width. (Debian bug #233923)
+
+  * In the dependency ("d") and version ("v") lists, the description
+    of the selected package is now visible by default.
+
+  * Added section descriptions for the new archive sections.
+    (Debian bug #233913)
+
+  * Information on Provides is now included in the package information
+    display and in "aptitude show".  (Debian bug #121979)
+
+  * Upgrades from security.debian.org should go in a separate
+    top-level tree.  (note: this is untested!)  Also, re-ordered the
+    toplevel trees.
+
+  * Avoid destroying all visible widgets without quitting in some corner
+    cases. (Debian bug #233783)
+
+  * Removed some text that was being ignored anyway from the
+    definition of the "miscellaneous" options dialog.  I would have
+    left it alone, but I think it could theoretically cause a problem.
+    (Debian bug #233528)
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Brazilian Portuguese program translation update.
+    (Debian bugs #237866, #199306)
+  * Czech translation update. (Debian bug #240604)
+  * Danish program translation update. (Debian bugs #230642, #234805)
+  * Finnish program translation update. (Debian bug #238188)
+  * French program translation update. (Debian bug #237501)
+  * German program translation update. (Debian bug #233917)
+  * Italian translation update. (Debian bug #239915)
+  * Japanese program translation update. (Debian bug #235256)
+  * Japanese translation update. (Debian bug #239242)
+  * Lituanian translation update. (Debian bug #240683)
+  * Norwegian Nynorsk translation update. (Debian bug #241104)
+  * Partial Greek program translation added. (Debian bug #237808)
+  * Partial Traditional Chinese program translation update. (Debian bug #230893)
+  * Portuguese program translation. (Debian bug #239171)
+  * Simplified Chinese translation update. (Debian bug #240739)
+  * Spanish program translation update. (Debian bug #234537)
+
+
+[2/15/2004]
+Version 0.2.14        "I say a package, and you say ah pahckahge"
+
+- Bugfixes and new features:
+
+  * Several command-line actions no longer crash when sources.list is
+    missing or unreadable.  In addition, if sources.list is present but
+    unreadable, the visual frontend no longer crashes. (Debian bug #220732)
+
+  * Fixed the detection of packages broken by conflicts.
+
+- Build system and internal changes:
+
+  * Use AS_HELP_STRING to format help output from configure.
+
+- Translation updates
+
+  * Italian updates (including a manpage translation) from Danilo Piazzalunga.
+
+  * Fixed the translation of a format string in the Czech translation, which
+    was causing segfaults.
+
+[2/13/2004]
+Version 0.2.13.9999.3 "Sisyphus Boulder Transportation and
+                       Delivery Engineers, Incorporated[tm]"
+
+- Bugfixes and new features:
+
+  * In the information area for packages, a note about disk usage
+    is printed (eg, "This package will be upgraded for <v1> to <v2>,
+    using 1111kB of additional disk space.")  Useful for sending
+    bug reports to maintainers who accidentally upload unstripped
+    binaries of their latest package version.
+
+  * (undocumented) Experimental support for "filling" some text to the
+    screen width; set Aptitude::UI::Fill-Text to True to use this.
+
+  * An FAQ is now shipped with aptitude.  I could only think of two
+    questions, but I expect that more will be asked over time.
+
+- Build system and internal changes:
+
+  * aptitude can now be compiled with g++ 3.0.  g++ 2.95 is not
+    supported due to at least one nasty bug in its STL which prevents
+    aptitude from compiling.  However, compiling with g++ 3.0 is enough
+    to get a woody backport.
+
+- Translation updates:
+
+  * Further Italian updates from Danilo Piazzalunga.
+
+  * Spanish translation updates from Ruben Porras.
+
+[2/8/2004]
+Version 0.2.13.9999.2 "Polar Eclipse"
+
+- Bugfixes and new features:
+
+  * Further enhancements to the new information display.  It now shows
+    any packages that are broken "because of" the currently selected
+    package.  In addition, the information is colorized (if the
+    terminal supports it) to give a better idea of why dependencies
+    are broken.
+
+  * The information area will automatically switch to showing
+    dependency information when a package breaks (press 'i' to switch
+    back).
+
+  * Fixed the changelog fetching code. (Debian bugs #103455, #208041)
+
+  * aptitude no longer automatically holds packages in any
+    circumstance; packages can be automatically kept back, but this
+    doesn't persist the way hold does.  (Debian bug #149161)
+
+  * Added support for a "show" action on the command-line.
+
+  * Invalid patterns no longer crash the search function.
+    (Debian bug #214245)
+
+  * Downgrades are now written to the log.  (Debian bug #222583)
+    Patch from Danilo Piazzalunga.
+
+  * Scrollbars are now clickable.
+
+  * Many minor changes not mentioned here; see ChangeLog for the gory
+    details.
+
+- Internal changes:
+
+  * Removed the HAVE_LIBAPT_PKG3 macro: this was intended to support
+    compiling against old apt versions, but those versions are now
+    ancient, and the program doesn't compile against them anyway.
+    Even if you wanted to, aptitude relies on having a newer version
+    of g++, while older apt versions won't even compile on modern g++
+    versiosn.
+
+- Translation-related changes:
+
+  * zh_CN translation of help.txt added (also from Carlos).
+
+  * pt_BR translation updated (Andre Luis Lopes).
+  
+
+[2/3/2004]
+Version 0.2.13.9999 "It goes ZIP when it moves!"
+
+- Bugfixes and new features:
+
+  * Don't abort loading the cache if apt generates warnings, such as
+    the warning that a new source is available.  This means that
+    aptitude doesn't behave pathologically when you add a new line to
+    sources.list.  (Debian bug #143732)
+
+  * Holding a package back or clearing a package's hold flag no longer
+    affect the auto-install flag.  (Debian bug #159582)
+
+  * Expanded the "reason" information that can be shown about
+    packages, and hooked it into the visual interface (the preview
+    display will show this information automatically)
+
+  * In previews, include a list of packages which are not installed
+    but are suggested by packages that are being installed.
+
+  * Entering the Preferences dialog for the first time no longer
+    causes Suggested packages to be automatically installed.
+
+  * Fix the way that options set via the dialogs are saved.
+    (Debian bug #216268)
+
+  * Added a scrollbar for the package description.
+
+  * Added padding between the labels of options and their settings (in the
+  * preference dialogs)
+
+  * Removed the idempotency option from the dialogs.
+
+  * Removed ~e: it was broken, inelegant, and superceded by regexps.
+    (Debian bug #196447)
+
+  * Additional minor bugfixes and editorial changes.
+
+- Build system and internal changes:
+
+  * Now uses autoconf2.5.
+
+  * Added a flexible system for formatting text (see fragment.cc).
+    This system is now used to handle package descriptions, as well as
+    a few other things.  This is a very promising addition to
+    aptitude's UI toolkit, and will almost certainly be used for
+    additional features in the future.  (for instance, it's about
+    80-90% of the way to being able to display simple hypertext)
+
+- Translation-related changes:
+
+  * Missing i18n markings added to many strings.
+    (Debian bug #230060)
+
+  * Fixed the German translation of "limit" (Debian bug #214021)
+
+  * Added a pt_BR translation, thanks to Gustavo Silva.
+    (Debian bug #214116)
+
+  * Added an Italian translation, thanks to Danilo Piazzalunga.
+
+  * Updates to da.po from Morten Bo Johansen.
+
+  * Added a Czech translation, thanks to Miroslav Kure.
+
+[6/9/2003]
+Version 0.2.13 "Pop goes the weasel"
+
+  * Fixes a number of crashes due to mishandling of memory, spotted
+    by Peter Lundkvist and Sami Liedes.
+    (Debian bug #192073 and #109420)
+
+  * Fix some crashes after updates, diagnosis by Peter Lundkvist.
+    (Debian bug #109420)
+
+  * No longer occasionally uses the first letter of the description as
+    a flag character, diagnosis by Seneca Cunningham. (Debian bug #183462)
+
+  * Translation updates to pt_BR by Andre Luis Lopes (Debian bug #195755)
+
+  * Ported to libsigc++-1.2.  Hopefully everything should work fine,
+    but I can't guarantee that no problems remain.
+
+  * Added an option to disable -Werror, needed until Debian's ncurses
+    implementation is fixed.
+
+[2/10/2003]
+Version 0.2.12 "O Ye of Little Faith!"
+  * Compiles with g++-3.2.  (Debian bugs #166435, 177092, 177463, 178520, and
+    maybe others)
+
+  * Match strings can be POSIX regular expressions.  (note that
+    regular expression metacharacters which also have a special
+    meaning for aptitude, such as "(", ")", and "!", must be tilde-escaped)
+    (Debian bug #142450)
+
+  * You can now see how much each package's installed size changed by
+    by specifying -Z on the command-line.  (only works for command-line
+    upgrades so far)
+
+  * You can search for text in the internal pagers.  (Debian bug #144085)
+
+  * Fixes to formatting code (Debian bug #163749)
+
+  * When searching for packages from the command-line, you can now
+    specify the order in which to sort results.
+
+  * If no version of any package could possibly fulfill a dependency,
+    it is textually flagged as "UNAVAILABLE".  (Debian bug #157950)
+
+  * The quick-help bar now indicates that "g" will also remove packages.
+    (Debian bug #158966)
+
+  * Disable saving/loading of packages' reinstall state, it's too annoying.
+    (Debian bugs #167236, #121346)
+
+  * Bold colors can be specified in the config file (although they will
+    cause problems in some contexts).  (Debian bug #168287)
+
+  * "Minor" fix to the package gc: when marking packages, follow
+    pre-depends.  This fixes the bug which prevented installation of
+    the new dpkg (this fix was previously introduced as a Debian revision,
+    and closed bug #151701)
+
+  * Startup should be faster in certain circumstances (eg: when many new
+    packages are available, or many packages have changed state)
+
+  * "aptitude install <task-name>" will install all packages in the task.
+    (Debian bug #165624)
+
+  * The resize bug in curses is fixed; re-enabled asynchronous resizing.
+
+  * Equivalent to apt-get's "-t" command-line argument.
+    (Debian bug #151583)  NOTE: this is untested, since I don't have a
+    machine where it would have any interesting effect, but I'm setting the
+    same APT option as apt-get, so it should work.  The effects on
+    the interactive mode of the program are unknown at this time, use
+    with caution!
+
+  * Translation updates to:
+   - da.po by Morten Bo Johansen <mojo@image.dk> (Debian bug #171903)
+   - pt_BR.po by Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br> (Debian bug #162512)
+
+   In addition, changed the content-type of fr.po (Debian bug #156616)
+
+  * The information in the log file about how much the size changed by
+    should be much more legible now.  (Debian bug #154924)
+
+  * Fixed an integer overflow when downloading really humongous packages.
+    (Debian bug #171903)
+
+  * Documented "M" and "m" in the online help (Debian bugs #160936, #154000)
+
+  * Expunged all references to the "x" keybinding. (Debian bug #166571)
+
+  * Several minor fixes of bugs, memory leaks, etc.
+
+[4/21/2002]
+Version 0.2.11.1 "Data updates are my friend"
+  * This release has corrections to typos and other data issues; it does
+    not change a single line of code.  This should be pushed into woody.
+
+  * Merged updated Polish translations from Michal Politowski
+   <mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl>  (Debian bug #143051)
+
+  * Merged updated Finnish translations from Jaakko Kangasharju <ashar@iki.fi>
+
+  * Included information on the CVS tree (Debian bug #141371)
+
+  * Fixed the dangling reference to SEARCHING in the manpage
+  (Debian bug #142651)
+
+[4/06/2002]
+Version 0.2.11 "Look Ma, No Hands!"
+           aka "Hello, JoeyH :)"
+
+  * IMPORTANT: The "new" command style is now default.  The old one is
+  available from the options menu, and users of previous versions may have
+  it in ~/.aptitude/config.  The new style is fairly straightforward,
+  and similar to dselect.  (eg: '+' tells the program to install the package
+  at the most recent version, and/or cancels holds)
+    With any luck, this will squeeze into woody; I don't need a whole new
+  generation of users used to the old imprecise system before I change it.
+
+  * '+' on an installed package no longer reinstalls it.  A separate
+  keybinding for reinstalling packages is now available, defaulting to 'L'.
+  (Debian bug #183122)
+
+  * The prompt in command-line mode now allows you to enter the full UI,
+  or to modify the set of installed/removed/purged packages.
+  (Debian bug #136916)
+
+  * The preview in command-line mode can be more informative: it can display
+  version numbers and dependency information.  (-V and -D)
+
+  * Added a -P option; passing it causes aptitude to always prompt for
+  confirmation.
+
+  * Verbosity levels are now available.  Right now this only affects
+  simulation (with verbosity=0, the long list of "Inst foo/Conf foo/etc"
+  is suppressed)
+
+  * Many command-line options can now be given in the configuration file.
+  (eg, Aptitude::CmdLine::Show-Versions for -V)
+
+  * The command-line mode now supports an "unhold" command.
+  (Debian bug #137770)
+
+  * Tasks and sections now have "descriptions" which appear in the
+  `package description area'.  (Debian bug #136684)
+
+  * Added a %H display escape, which expands to the hostname of the
+  computer aptitude is running on.  (Debian bug #137754)
+
+  * In command-line mode, the prompt is suppressed on upgrades when nothing
+  is to be done. (Debian bug #137302)
+
+  * Reinstalled packages are displayed in the preview screens again.
+  (Debian bug #138120)
+
+  * Rewrote the description widget's formatting code to be reasonably
+  legible; this had the side effect of fixing an otherwise tricky bug.
+  (Debian bug #137783)
+
+  * Fixed a bug which made the Tasks tree virtually useless by hiding
+  many packages. (Debian bug #136684)
+
+  * If the user aborts an update, reload the cache.  (Debian bug #138070)
+
+  * autoclean now defaults to false, the "safe" option.  (Debian bug #138685)
+
+  * Fixed a nasty segfault involving running off the end of the list.
+  (Debian bug #136967)
+
+  * Fixed an infinite loop if the user tried to scroll the description while
+  it was hidden. (Debian bug #140361)
+
+  * The "install" command-line action doesn't interpret trailing plus
+  characters (or hyphens, underscores, or equal signs) in a package name
+  as explicit install requests if a package by that name already exists.
+    In short: "aptitude install g++" actually works.  (Debian bug #140933)
+
+  * Focus handling: you can no longer focus an empty description widget, and
+  the highlight bar in the package tree is hidden when the tree loses focus.
+  (Debian bug #136550)
+
+  * "aptitude --help" now documents the "download" command.
+  (Debian bug #138150)
+
+  * The status messages on startup are now suppressed in the "aptitude search"
+  command. (Debian bug #136873)
+
+  * When the download is stalled, "stalled" is now displayed in the progress
+  bar.  (Debian bug #136520)
+
+  * The command-line mode deals sanely with window resizes.
+  (Debian bug #137945)
+
+  * For obsolete and local packages, an "available" version is not displayed.
+  (Debian bug #120872)
+
+  * Added a description for the "alien" section (Debian bug #136684)
+
+  * aptitude now recognizes "--version" (Debian bug #141296)
+
+  * German translation updated, courtesy of Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>
+
+  * Thanks go to joeyh (and others) for sending in a slew of bug reports
+  and suggestions.
+
+[3/02/2002]
+Version 0.2.10 "World Domination Or Bust"
+  * aptitude now has support for batch/command-line mode, similar to apt-get.
+    This isn't going to make everyone happy just yet, but it should cover
+  most common cases.  Upgrades via this approach get all the usual benefits
+  of aptitude (tracking unused packages, recommends, etc).   There are
+  various other features; see aptitude(1).
+
+  * If a package matches the "never remove these packages" expression,
+  not only will it not be removed automatically, but its dependencies
+  are also protected.
+
+  * Documented the "p" state of packages.  (Debian bug #135112)
+
+  * Matchers now exist for upgradable and new packages.  The new meaning
+  of the ~r matcher (things which would be removed due to being unused)
+  has been assigned to the new ~g matcher; the old ~r meaning has been
+  reinstated.  (Debian bug #135571)
+
+  * If Suggested packages are being installed by default, no packages
+  will be removed automatically if something else Suggests them.  There
+  are still a few odd cases here, but this is probably about as
+  good as I can do for now.  (Debian bug #135956)
+
+  * There is now a menu item to mark all upgradable and not manually held
+  packages for upgrade.
+
+  * Packages being downgraded are now split into their own section in the
+  preview.
+
+  * Logging is now on by default; /var/log/aptitude is used.
+
+  * When Auto-Upgrade is off, packages which are not manually held are
+  not displayed with "h" in the action field.
+
+  * Updated Finnish translations from Jaakko Kangasharju <ashar@iki.fi>
+
+  * Fixed a display problem in the download screen; the amount of time
+  displayed in the summary always had an extra "s" appended to it.
+  (Debian bug #135567)
+
+  * Removed the INSTALLATION section from the manual; however, it
+  was replaced by command line options.  I'm not sure how joeyh
+  will feel about this fix.  (Debian bug #136478)
+
+[2/17/2002]
+Version 0.2.9.4 "Black Holes Are Where God Divided By Zero"
+  * When calculating the time remaining in a download, aptitude
+  was dividing by CurrentCPS.  Unfortunately, CurrentCPS is often
+  zero!  On some platforms this works anyway, but it crashes on others
+  (eg, alpha)
+
+   The code now tests whether CurrentCPS is zero when generating the
+  progress bar. (Debian bug #122064)
+
+  * Forget-new-on-update actually works. (Debian bug #134226)
+
+[2/10/2002]
+Version 0.2.9.3 "Curse you, gcc steering committe!"
+  * g++-3 #defines _GNU_SOURCE by default, causing compilation to
+  die in because it's already defined.  All #define _GNU_SOURCE
+  directives are now protected.  (Debian bug #133250)
+
+  * Actually include the Polish translation of the manpage, and update
+  pl.po slightly.
+  (Debian bug #114396)
+
+[2/09/2002]
+Version 0.2.9.2 "Odds 'n Ends"
+  * This release is because I accidentally left some uncommitted cruft on
+  a computer I wasn't planning to use for a while.  I rediscovered it,
+  equally accidentally, and am now releasing it officially.
+
+  * Added %M to the default column display.
+
+  * Tweaked the preview screen so that packages which are being automatically
+  upgraded do not appear as being "Automatically Installed" (maybe not the best
+  way of doing things?)
+
+  * Really fixed the su-to-root stuff.
+
+  * ~ahold now really does the Right Thing (same for some related stuff)
+  (Debian bug #126800)
+
+[2/09/2002]
+Version 0.2.9.1 "Silence of the LANs"
+  * Argh.  I left a bug in 0.2.9; marking a package as auto-installed screwed
+  up undo.  Fixed now.
+
+[2/09/2002]
+Version 0.2.9 "Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?" aka
+              "When Changelog Entries Attack" aka
+              "Slower Than Cold Molasses"
+  * This one took so long to get out and has so many bugfixes that it
+   gets three release names.  Aren't you happy? :)
+
+  * aptitude now has functionality similar to debfoster/deborphan.
+  It tracks whether a package was automatically installed and
+  automatically marks automatically installed, but not-depended-upon,
+  packages for removal.  You can of course adjust this behavior; see
+  the "TRACKING UNUSED PACKAGES" section of the manual.
+    (Debian bugs #122726, #102205, #114464)
+
+  * Added logic for idempotent package commands, and an option to enable
+  them.  I feel that these commands are actually much more logical than
+  the old-style aptitude commands.
+
+  * Packages which are held, but broken, are now visually flagged as being
+  broken.  (Debian bug #120785)
+
+  * The log messages now include date/time.  (Debian bug #120874)
+
+  * Re-ordered the preview screen's grouping.  I would like feedback
+  on this.  (Debian bug #128542)
+
+  * Rewrote several sections of the documentation, partly based on user
+  input.  (Debian bug #126492)
+
+  * Mark all upgradable packages for upgrade before resolving any
+  dependencies.  This handles a situation involving ORed version-specific
+  dependencies.  (Debian bug #108379)
+
+  * Changed the symbols for collapsed/opened trees to something not
+  using +/-, which seem to be ambiguous.  (Debian bugs #120890, 102033)
+
+  * When editing a string, the cursor now starts at the beginning of the
+  line.  (Debian bug #120890)
+
+  * When reconfiguring packages, gracefully handle the case where
+  /usr/sbin/su-to-root does not exist.  (Debian bug #130423)
+
+  * Really made translated header widths work (and I tested it this time! :) )
+  (Debian bug #114401)
+
+  * Corrected a misspelling in the options dialog (Debian bug #120887)
+
+  * Updates to da.po from Morten Brix Pederson <morten@wtf.dk>
+
+  * The information bar at the top of the screen is now translatable.
+  Patch from Morten Brix Pederson.
+
+  * Fixed a misspelling in de.po.  (Debian bug #123644)
+
+  * Fixed a minor display bug when a package category was longer than the
+  width of the screen and the last item in the display.  (Debian bug #123652)
+
+[12/09/2001]
+Version 0.2.8.1 "Sigh"
+  * Incremental search now returns the display to the starting location on
+  the empty string and invalid patterns.
+
+  * There is now a matcher for packages which are not depended on in various
+  ways.  (Debian bug #122726)
+
+  * The pause after a download is now optional (Debian bug #120873)
+
+  * package data moved to /var/lib by default.  (Debian bug #122334)
+
+  * Aptitude should not crash on alpha any more, at least, not the way
+  it used to.
+
+  * Description of the "comm" section changed to explicitly include
+  non-faxmodems. (Debian bug #121951)
+
+  * "j" and "k" were reversed in the help text.  They are now correct.
+  (Debian bug #122061)
+
+  * Danish translation from Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@wtf.dk>
+
+  * es_ES.po has been renamed to es.po.  Someone who knows more about
+  Spanish than me (Jordi Malloch) told me this was a better name for it.
+
+  * pt_BR.po updated from patch supplied by
+  Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@ig.com.br>  (Debian bug #122251)
+
+[11/22/2001]
+Version 0.2.8 "I Like Bunnies"
+  * Better documentation for the behavior of "/" when no special search
+  terms are used.  (Debian bug #120592)
+
+  * Fixes some segfaults accidentally introduced with the incsearch code.
+
+  * Incremental search is now an option (defaulting to ON)
+
+  * Added special matchers which match packages depending on another
+  package.  These matchers take another matcher as an argument, so
+  you can specify conditions such as "packages depending on packages
+  maintained by me"
+
+[11/21/2001]
+Version 0.2.7.999 "This release will self-destruct in 10 seconds"
+  * This release is a prerelease to 0.2.8, to test the new incsearch code.
+
+  * Incremental search implemented, finally.
+
+  * Don't crash if tasksel is missing.  (Debian bug #120578)
+
+  * Make sure to use the correct translated column widths all the time.
+    (Debian bug #114401)
+
+  * Minor memory leak in search code fixed (it would leak a few bytes
+  every time you entered a new search term)
+
+[11/20/2001]
+Version 0.2.7.3 "Boy I'm glad I'm not a turkey"
+  * Categories updated to take into account many new packages in the
+  archive.
+
+  * New pl translation finally merged.  (Debian bug #114396)
+
+  * Fixed reference to ~a/~A in README (Debian bug #116695)
+
+[11/20/2001]
+Version 0.2.7.2 "Ludicrous Speed"
+  * Rewrote the task loader based on input from Jason Gunthorpe.
+    The new version should be significantly faster, especially on
+  low-end systems.  (Debian bug #116750)
+
+  * Fixed an annoying visual bug involving the page-up key.
+
+  * Added a menu item to reload the cache on demand (useful for debugging)
+    This is a compile-time option and defaults to being disabled.
+
+  * The "f" key in Minesweeper mode is now documented in the online help.
+    (Debian bug #120251)
+
+[10/01/2001]
+Version 0.2.7.1 "Millenium Hand and Shrimp"
+  * Made it compile again using g++-3.
+
+[10/01/2001]
+Version 0.2.7 "All the zeros and ones"
+  * Version number bumped, just because this is not merely a trivial bugfix,
+  and the version numbers were getting silly.
+
+  * Added support for the Task header.  (Debian bug #113657)
+    I'm not sure what will happen if you have task- packages as well as
+    Task headers.  Probably something weird.
+
+[9/22/2001]
+Version 0.2.6.5 "Twisting arms"
+  * Work around a g++ bug on arm by reversing the order of some #includes.
+
+  * Reverting options no longer sets options which had been set by the user's
+  personal configuration to a blank string.
+
+[9/15/2001]
+Version 0.2.6.4 "If at first you don't succeed"
+  * Loading keybindings works again.  In addition, it works correctly
+  in the presence of themes.  (the keybindings defined in the theme can
+  be individually overridden by the user)  Fixes Debian bug #112307
+
+  * The list of available keybindings in README has been corrected.
+
+[9/14/2001]
+Version 0.2.6.3 "More bug-skooshing"
+  * When compiled without optimization, aptitude no longer crashes whenever
+  a package is unhighlighted.  (I shudder to think why the optimized build
+  wasn't crashing)
+
+  * move_forward_level no longer ever "falls off the edge of the world".
+  This fixes the segfault reported in #112267.
+
+[9/13/2001]
+Version 0.2.6.2 "Bug-skooshing"
+  * The program no longer crashes when the hierarchy editor is used.
+  All known something-completely-doesn't-work type bugs are now fixed.
+
+  * Updated the package categorizations.
+
+[9/13/2001]
+Version 0.2.6.1 "Darkness over Manhatten"
+  * Fixes a horrible bug in 0.2.6 which prevented downloads from working.
+  (Debian bug #111950)
+
+  * The translations should be back in the package again.  (d'oh!)
+  (Debian bug #111904)
+
+  * The default display is back to its usual configuration (oops)
+
+  * An option now appears in the "UI Options" dialog for the default grouping.
+
+  * The scrolling behavior of the line-editor should be more friendly.
+  (it'll scroll by single characters to a greater extent)
+
+[9/8/2001]
+Version 0.2.6 "It's against my programming to impersonate a deity"
+  * IMPORTANT NOTE: this version will not compile on potato.  If anyone
+  cares about this, I can patch the code to not compile themes on
+  potato.  (the problem is that a feature I use to load themes isn't
+  available in potato's libapt)  Alternatively, some brave soul could
+  patch aptitude to load themes using potato's libapt...
+
+  * Released despite the fact that 0.2.5.3 is not yet in testing.  From
+  my glances at the testing bot's output, the problem is that the deity
+  people are being lazy and not fixing RC bugs, which (since aptitude depends
+  on a version of apt not in testing) is preventing the new apt from going
+  into testing (which would break deity in testing).  And aptitude can't go
+  into testing without the new apt.  Blah.
+    By the time deity-devel fixes their bugs and gets recompiles for all archs
+  and so on, this will be ready for testing.  I would have uploaded it a
+  long time ago, had I realized what would happen.
+
+  * This version adds support for externally defined package hierarchies,
+  one of the major original goals of aptitude.
+    As usual, this turned out to integrate less well into the program than
+  I had hoped.  Fixing this will probably require another tree-class rewrite,
+  and I think I'll aim at fixing it in 0.4.x.  Anyway, though, the basic
+  stuff is there.  A lot of the work, actually, was in a massive and concerted
+  attempt to make a first-cut hierarchy of all the packages in sid.  This
+  was successful, in the limited sense that such a hierarchy now exists (and
+  is distributed with the program)  However, it has many problems and
+  even some inconsistencies.  Further work on that front is needed.
+
+    The hierarchy stuff is documented in README.hier.  If you are an APT
+  frontend author, please be aware that it is trivial to implement, and a
+  (slow) generic implementation is available in src/generic/pkg_hier.{cc,h}.
+  (this is currently the implementation used by aptitude itself)
+    In other words: I want to encourage people to use this mechanism.
+
+    If you are interested in helping improve the categorizations, I suggest
+  using the internal category editor (press "E" while viewing packages)  The
+  Vertical-Split layout is particularly useful for this.
+
+    Efficiency is somewhat of a concern with this code; however, if you do
+  not use it, it is my hope that it will never affect your use of the program.
+
+  * In addition, there is slightly hacky support for a "flat package browser".
+  This goes hand-in-hand with the above change, as I found that complex
+  hierarchies were actually harder (for my little mind :) ) to navigate using
+  aptitude's traditional tree-based approach.  Do "New Categorical Browser"
+  from the "Views" menu to try this out.
+
+  * The screen layout may now be configured by the user.  This is
+  currently only available by editing configuration files, and is
+  undocumented (because it's complicated, and I may change the format
+  for a few revisions while I'm trying to figure out the best way
+  of doing things)  See $prefix/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults for
+  some examples.
+
+  * "Theming support" is available.  A "theme" is basically a collection
+  of settings that makes aptitude behave and look differently.  The only
+  themes available are "Vertical-Split" (highly recommended by me for wide
+  consoles or xterms, especially if you're editing package hierarchies), and
+  "Dselect" (not particularly useful even if you are a dselect junkie)
+
+  * Aptitude::UI::Default-Grouping is now documented, and will not be
+  used to set the grouping of a preview screen (bug #110704)
+
+  * Aptitude::UI::Package-Header-Format is now documented.
+
+  * Colors can be defined as being bold.  This cleans out a lot of evil
+  cruft.
+
+  * A 'short priority' column is now available (added to support a
+  dselect theme)
+
+  * autoclean-on-update works again.  (bug #108565)
+
+  * ~ahold works again.  (bug #111466)
+
+  * Several bugs in the table layout code were fixed; it should behave much
+  more sanely now.
+
+  * If aptitude (God forbid!) crashes or is killed with a catchable signal,
+  it will now properly shut the display down instead of leaving it in a
+  screwy state.
+
+  * Fixed building on ia64 (old nasty debug code was breaking it)
+
+  * Deleted the note in the README about "Save Options"
+
+  * The configuration is now saved to config.new and moved to config using
+  rename(2).  This should guard better against problems with the save process.
+
+  * Subtree names in small windows are no longer clipped to one character
+  too short.
+
+  * Updated my mailing address in README and AUTHORS to @debian.org.
+
+[8/6/2001]
+Version 0.2.5.3 "I hate build errors"
+  * getopt_long returns an int, not a char.  This caused signedness problems
+  on powerpc.
+  * time() and difftime() are in time.h.  This caused compile problems
+  on the Hurd; it seems they were accidentally implicitly included on other
+  platforms.
+  * "make dist" no longer generates the ChangeLog automatically from RCS
+  entries.  This means that I'll have to maintain it manually, but that
+  REALLY beats having to download the full log for every file over a phone
+  line every time I release a new version.
+
+[7/27/2001]
+Version 0.2.5.2 "Dashing away with a smoothing iron"
+  * Fix an endianess problem that caused crashes on Alpha (among others)
+  (Debian bug #106588)
+
+[7/24/2001]
+Version 0.2.5.1 "Hand me the brown paper bag, nurse!"
+  * Using a widget with a history list no longer segfaults the program.
+  Lesson of the day: never assume that a change is benign even if it couldn't
+  possibly cause any problems!  (Debian bug #106378)
+
+[7/23/2001]
+Version 0.2.5 "Drop the text editor and back away slowly"
+  * Multi-CD installs now work.  (Debian bug #104236)
+
+  * Mouse support added.  Doesn't do much now, but the menus and buttons will
+  work with it, and you can double-click packages to see information on them.
+
+  * The download list can be scrolled left and right using the left and right
+  arrow keys.
+
+  * Line-editors can now have a history list.  (used when entering search and
+  limit terms, grouping mechanisms, and sorting policies)
+
+  * The prompt to enter a search term now defaults to an empty string; press
+  up or Control-P to recall the previous term.
+
+  * The 'set group' command now displays the current group as a default
+  entry.  (Debian bug #103962)
+
+  * The Minesweeper help screen should really work this time.
+
+  * The Install/Remove menu item does the same thing as pressing 'g' when
+  a preview is selected.
+
+  * Added a line at the top of the screen listing some important keybindings,
+  and removed the welcome dialog.  The welcome dialog was annoying, and
+  extensive user testing (consisting of me watching over my sister's shoulder
+  for about 5 minutes) revealed that people don't bother to read the
+  keybinding information in it anyway.  (Debian bug #104483)
+
+  * The primary Undo keybinding (ie, the one displayed in the menu) is now
+  C-u, not C-_.
+
+[7/19/2001]
+Version 0.2.4 "C++ standard?  What C++ standard?"
+  * aptitude compiles with g++-3.0.  (Debian bug #104723)
+  * help-fi.txt is now in CVS (it was in the distribution tar.gz, but never
+  got added to CVS.  Go figure)
+
+[7/11/2001]
+Version 0.2.3 "Curse you, Peter Pan!"
+  * Finally, a new version..unfortunately, aptitude 0.2.2 needs two more days
+  to get into testing, and I'm going to be gone in a few days.  I want to
+  upload this version significantly before the freeze, since it fixes some
+  bugs and could also add some that'll have to be squashed.  So I'm going to
+  say farewell to my dreams of 0.2.2 in testing, and upload this.  Maybe I
+  should increase the urgency, I really don't want the version in testing
+  to be released with woody.
+
+  * This version of aptitude should compile on Progeny Linux and on potato.
+
+  * aptitude can now attempt to automatically su to the root user when
+  running as a non-root user.  Treat this with some care, as it's a fairly
+  complex and new feature -- ie, there are probably bugs and unexpected
+  behavior lurking in it.
+
+    However, this should provide an escape route in "OMG, I just spent an hour
+  picking programs to install and forgot I wasn't root!" situations.
+
+  * aptitude now supports some command-line options, see "man aptitude" for
+  details.
+
+  * "status bar" downloads aren't any more; "split-screen" is more
+  accurate.  They display the currently active items and leave out the
+  history of past downloads.
+
+  * With any luck, the media-change message should now fit on one line.
+  This still doesn't handle the case where the CD name is longer than the
+  screen width, but I hope it'll do for now.
+
+  * Pressing "q" while a 'status bar' download is in progress now stops it.
+
+  * If the package list is resized so that the selection would be off the
+  screen, the selection will now be preserved. (Debian bug #103963)
+
+  * A package description with a word which is longer than the screen width
+  will no longer crash aptitude.  (Debian bug #103691)
+
+  * Broken dependencies now have a visual marking other than color.
+  (Debian bug #79047)
+
+  * If the menubar autohides and the user opted to be able to close all
+  screens without exiting the program, force the menu to be visible
+  anyway if no screens are active. (Debian bug #102918)
+
+  * Fixed bugs that prevented the "utils" and "hamradio" sections from having
+  descriptions displayed.
+
+  * If you try to start aptitude as root while the apt cache is locked, it
+  will open the cache read-only. (previously it just refused to run at all)
+
+  * A limit type based on the action to be taken with a package
+  (install/upgrade/remove/purge/reinstall/hold) is now available.
+  (Ted Tso's suggestion, no bug #)
+
+  * The 'action' keys can now advance the cursor to the next item at the
+  current level.  They won't advance into subtrees or out of the current
+  subtree; this is because it's nontrivial for me to move to the "next"
+  subtree due to the design, and moving out of a subtree violates the
+  Principle of Least Surprise (not to mention probably causing you to delete
+  half your packages)  (Debian bug #104209)
+
+  * Pressing '?' while playing Minesweeper will actually show a help screen
+  now.
+
+  * You can now run dpkg-reconfigure from within aptitude (it's a silly
+  feature, but it's also about 10 lines of code..)
+
+  * When aptitude starts for the first time, it will *not* mark every
+  package as new.
+
+[6/29/2001]
+Version 0.2.2 "Finlandia"
+  * The Finnish translations have been updated to work with 0.2.0.  This is
+  the major change in this release.
+
+  * Default widths can now be set by the translator, albiet in a slightly
+  hacky way.  (you can translate a string of numbers to set them.  See
+  pkg_columnizer.cc for a short description)
+
+  * A short description of each section is now displayed next to the section
+  itself.  This clutters things up a bit and may be modified or removed in
+  a future release.
+
+[6/28/2001]
+Version 0.2.1 "Another Fine Mess"
+  * Options are now automatically saved when you hit "OK".  Let's hope I was
+  overly paranoid earlier about the possible consequences of this..
+
+  * Installing from CD-ROMs works.  Amazingly, this worked perfectly in every
+  release through 0.1.9 -- 0.2.0 broke it when I changed the semantics of
+  popup_widget(), and I couldn't test it until I finally found a CD..
+
+  * Minesweeper's dialog boxes (new game, etc) work.  (although pressing
+  Enter while Cancel is selected does the Wrong Thing..)
+
+  * The original behavior of the tree widgets has been restored: they only
+  scroll one line at a time.  Personally, I find this to be much better; I
+  hope you do too.
+
+  * Really fixed the signedness issues with addch() this time.  (I hope..)
+
+  * The ancient bug that caused the root of the tree to be hidden when you
+  pressed End has been found and terminated (with extreme prejudice)
+
+[6/25/2001]
+Version 0.2.0 "Damn The Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead!"
+  * Ok, it took a bit longer than I expected.  Sue me.
+
+  This is the first version in the 0.2.0 "stable" series, where "stable"
+means "working reasonably well".  User-visible changes from 0.0.x include:
+
+  * The UI has been completely rewritten.  Several changes below
+  follow from this, but in general it allowed the interface to become
+  more flexible and dynamic.
+
+  * aptitude now supports a split-screen display.  It isn't visible by
+  default in all screens; press 'D' to show or hide it.
+
+  * There is a global menubar.
+
+  * The currently active views are arranged less like a stack: you can
+  cycle between them or jump to a particular one.
+
+  * 'x' no longer has any function.  You cannot say "revert all
+  changes I made in this display", because with a non-stack display
+  model, "all changes I made in this display" doesn't make sense.
+
+  * You can read this document from within the program.
+
+  * The program options can be modified from within the program.
+
+  * You can configure the way in which packages are grouped and
+  sorted.
+
+  * You can play Minesweeper from within the program.
+
+  * The download display has been entirely rewritten.  ie, it works
+  now and isn't so much of a hack.
+
+  * When a package is marked for installation, aptitude can now
+  install the packages it recommends and/or suggests as well.
+
+  * aptitude can now perform clean and autoclean operations.
+
+  * much, much more.  (well, maybe not.  Do I look like I know?)
+
+Changes from version 0.1.9:
+
+  * Aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit works again.
+
+  * The extended description area can be hidden by default.
+
+  * Autoclean actually works, rather than just saying that it works.
+
+  * The menubar now automatically pops up the first menu, rather than
+  doing this "select the menu name" thing.
+
+  * It should now be possible to view the NEWS file from the Help
+  menu.
+
+  * Removed the Test Error.
+
+  * Added src/vscreen/README.layout to the files which are included in
+  the distribution.
+
+  * You now get the extended description area, status line, and so on
+  in all screens, even if you access them via a version item (oops)
+
+  * The extended description no longer allows you to scroll off the bottom.
+
+  * Fixed sorting, in an only slightly ugly way.  (the configurable
+  sorting was only being applied to the first level of hierarchy)
+
+  * Eight-bit characters should work again in vs_pager, I hope.
+
+  * vscreen/ compiles with g++-3.0.
+    The convention I'm now using for STL classes is this: header files
+  should explicitly use "std::" to access them; .cc files should
+  declare "using std" (AFTER all #includes!)
+
+  * Several strings were still hard to translate because they were
+  used in concatenation to produce a result.
+
+  * Menu tweaks: the "o" in "Remove obsolete packages" is now
+  highlighted.
+
+  * Fixed some random deadlocks by using recursive mutexes.
+
+  * Documentation updated, although not as much as I wanted to.
+
+Pre-0.2.0 versions:
+===============================================================================
+[6/18/2001]
+Version 0.1.9 "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace."
+  * If there are no serious bug reports about this, APTITUDE 0.2 WILL
+  BE UPLOADED TO UNSTABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE!  Therefore, if you know of
+  a problem that should prevent this from being released into the wild,
+  PLEASE TELL ME!  Thank you.
+
+  * There is now a header which displays various useful information.
+
+  * The views all display a header, description area, and status line.
+  (previously only the main package list displayed them)
+
+  * The status line now does something slightly more sensible when no package
+  is selected.  Suggestions for further refinement welcome
+
+  * Changing the status layout configuration now has an immediate effect.
+
+  * You can now have a separate limit for preview screens
+  (Aptitude::UI::Preview-Limit)
+
+  * Various informational messages are displayed in the status line now if
+  the "minibuffer interaction" option is set.
+
+  * Package matchers for Origin and Archive are now available.
+
+  * There is now an option ("Aptitude::UI::Welcome-Dialog") controlling
+  whether the potentially annoying welcome dialog is displayed on startup.
+
+  * Various potential crashes fixed, I hope.
+
+[6/15/2001]
+Version 0.1.8 "Making a List and Checking It Twice"
+  * Viewing dependencies no longer causes Aptitude to enter an infinite loop
+
+  * Added consistency checking: you can no longer perform an installation
+  run if there are broken packages (the problem-resolver will run and you
+  will be sent back to the preview screen)
+
+  * Aptitude can now install Recommends and Suggests when a package is
+  selected for installation.  (note, however, that libapt is a little screwy
+  and seems to behave incorrectly if there is an OR in the Recommends: or
+  Suggests: line.  I'll work up a proper bug report when I have a chance)
+
+    This only works if Auto-Install is on.  Therefore:
+
+  * Auto-Install IS NOW ON BY DEFAULT!  I think this should be fine, but people
+  should be aware of this.
+
+  * Aptitude can now perform the "autoclean" operation of apt-get.  It can
+  also perform the "autoclean" operation automatically whenever packages are
+  updated.  Addresses Debian bug #97653.
+
+  THIS IS ON BY DEFAULT!
+  If you think having it be on by default is bad, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
+  If you think having it be on by default is good, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
+
+  I have mixed feelings about this, because while naive users who just take
+  the defaults will probably benefit from this, I feel that it violates the
+  "principle of least surprise".
+
+  * Reinstalled packages are no longer listed as broken in the preview screen.
+
+  * Reinstalled packages and versions of reinstalled packages are colorized
+  correctly.
+
+  * Aptitude::Log is now documented.
+
+  * Action logs are now sorted by type and package name.  In other words: it
+  should now be possible to make sense of them.
+
+  * Essential packages can be selected using a matcher.
+
+  * Packages which are essential have a line saying "Essential: Yes" in
+  their info screens.
+
+  * Marking an essential package for removal is now difficult (if you can get
+  the problem-resolver to do it, though, the program won't complain when you
+  try to remove them.  I don't think the problem-resolver will ever do this,
+  though..)  Addresses Debian bug #86115
+
+  * Packages can be grouped and sorted by priority.
+
+  * Cleaning the package cache gives more feedback.
+
+  * Recommends and suggests are colored red if they are not met.
+
+  * Certain trees (specifically package installation modes and priorities)
+  now are sorted in a non-alphabetical order.  For instance, with priorities,
+  the highest priority comes first, followed by the next-highest, and so on.
+
+  * Fixed a crash when using ANDs in matching expressions.
+
+[6/4/2001]
+Version 0.1.7 "No."
+  * Scrollbars should now be fixed in the popup pagers.  (there are still some
+  visual artifacts, which I'm tempted to attribute to Curses bugs..)
+
+  * A Minesweeper game is now available in aptitude, to liven up those long
+  downloads.  Select "play Minesweeper" from the main menu..
+
+  * Trying to repeat a search before a search has been performed no longer
+  crashes the program.
+
+  * Many more items added to the options menu and dialogs.  Internally we now
+  use static tables to build the option dialogs, which should make it easier
+  to add new options to them.
+
+  * Fixed several small problems with the documentation of configuration
+  options.
+
+  * A popup window now appears for the entire time that aptitude is setting
+  up after loading the cache.  (it currently says "loading cache")  The real
+  solution is to make this not take so long, but..
+
+  * NOTE: this version does NOT have the "don't let the user do something
+  broken" code featured in 0.0.8.7.  With luck, 0.1.8 will have its own
+  version of that logic.
+
+[5/3/2001]
+Version 0.1.6 "Are We There Yet?"
+  * Merged with the stable branch through 0.0.8.6
+
+  * File menu renamed to Actions (since that's what it is)
+
+  * Undo re-enabled, and created an "Undo menu".  Note that undo no longer has
+  the mark/revert behavior it used to -- in fact, it cannot, because the UI
+  is no longer a strict stack (you can switch from one screen to another freely)
+
+  * The README can now be viewed (from within the program) from the Help menu.
+
+  * The menus and a lot more UI stuff should now be fully translatable.
+
+  * Fixed a nasty little bug where undoing one action would make all
+  auto-upgraded packages revert to being held.  (backported to 0.0.8.6)
+
+  * When displaying a keybinding to the user, C-_ is displayed as C-_ rather
+  than C-^?.
+
+  * Information about the currently selected item is now displayed in the
+  "status bar" style, with an additional "bold" attribute.  Makes it easier to
+  tell apart from, say, an extended description.
+
+  * Fixed some bugs in the logic for causing the download display to
+  constantly stick to the end: in particular, the currently downloading
+  item should now be on the bottom line of the screen rather than being
+  off the bottom (and thus invisible)
+
+  * If ~/.aptitude does not exst when the user selects "save options",
+  it is now created.
+
+[4/27/2001]
+Version 0.1.5 "Will Debianize For Food"
+  * All changelog entries which are really from 2001 are now listed as being
+  from 2001.  However much I wish I could stop the forward march of time, I
+  don't think that's the way to go about doing it.
+
+  * Split-screen!  Ok, it's slightly hacky, unconfigurable, can't display
+  anything besides the package description, and the bindings are quirky, but
+  hey, the idea is there :)
+    For lazy people :), 'D' shows/hides the description window and 'a' and 'z'
+  move up/down in it.  'Tab' can be used to switch to it, at which point the
+  usual navigation keys work.  At least, the ones I've implemented (up one line
+  and down one line) work.
+
+  * A precompiled matcher is now always used to perform searches.  This not
+  only makes searches (hopefully) faster, it also prevents crashes when a bad
+  search term is encountered a la bug #95455.
+
+  * Packages which don't have an explicit source package listed should have
+  a source package which has the same name as the package itself.  The info
+  screen now makes use of this fact.
+
+  * Exiting now saves the selection info again (there's not yet an
+  "exit and discard changes" -- just Ctrl-C :-) )
+
+[4/10/2001]
+Version 0.1.4 "Once there was an Elephant, who tried to use the Telephant"
+  * Merged with stable up through 0.0.8.3.
+
+  * The multiplexer now jumps to the "previous" widget when the current
+  one is destroyed.  The point of this is that the main aptitude display will
+  act more or less like a stack again, which is a lot more convenient than how
+  it was acting in 0.1.3.
+
+  * The "Cancel" button displayed after downloading packages actually works.
+
+  * When downloading stuff, the "saving extended information" progress
+  bar is hidden.
+
+  * The (non-minibuffer) download screens now have an "overall progress"
+  indicator.
+
+  * The status line now displays information about the currently
+  selected menu item.
+
+[3/23/2001]
+Version 0.1.3 "South Blue Quickly"
+  * Still a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE.
+
+  * Worked around a dumb autoconf bug.
+
+  * Merged with stable updates through 0.0.8.0.
+
+  * Added a match type for versions (~V)
+
+  * Fixed a bug that caused the download-list to be updated at very
+  irregular intervals.
+
+  * Added a popup after the download that claims you can continue
+  or cancel.  You can't.  But it's a nice thought anyway.  (see the first item)
+
+  * Added sorting policies.  It was harder than it sounds.  See README.
+
+[2/21/2001]
+Version 0.1.2 "Erlkönig"
+  * Still a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE.
+
+  * How packages are grouped into the hierarchy can finally be configured!
+  Currently there are only a few totally new options, but I'm sure people will
+  find novel ways to brea^H^H^H^Hconfigure their systems.  Also, it's dead
+  simple to add parsing for new policies (see load_config.cc and
+  pkg_grouppolicy.cc)
+    See the "GROUPING CONFIGURATION" section in the README for more information.
+
+  * The download screen now scrolls automagically!  This closes one of the
+  longest-standing and most just complaints about Aptitude. (TODO: add a
+  scollbar widget -- not hard)
+
+  * The "bytes downloaded" message shown when download completes now allows you
+  to scroll the download screen behind it.  (TODO: display this as a "minibuffer"
+  if the user requests it)
+
+  * Synced with 0.0.7.15, fixes various minor issues and makes the default
+  grouping more sane.
+
+  * When you do a "forget new", the display is updated to reflect that fact.
+
+  * Supposedly, package-info lines should be hidden when you perform a download.
+  I'm not sure this actually works..
+
+  * There's code to allow different sorting policies, not that you can actually
+  use it.  (eg, sort by size..)
+
+  * Divide-by-zero errors no longer randomly happen while you're downloading.
+
+[1/30/2001]
+Version 0.1.1 "Fool!  I told you the Electric Rubber Ducky Incident
+               was never to be mentioned in my presence again!"
+  * Still a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE.
+
+  * Updating package lists and installing packages is now possible!  This is
+  still a little dicey and will improve in coming releases, but you can do it.
+
+  * aptitude now compiles (and works) with APT 0.4, in addition to APT 0.3
+    No 0.4 special features are explicitly supported yet.
+
+  * configure.in now aborts if libsigc++ can't be found.
+
+  * Keybindings for the current view were incorrectly active while the menu was
+  being used.  Fixed.
+
+  * You can now choose whether the menu should auto-hide, and by default it
+  doesn't.
+
+  * Searching for packages is again possible.  I've tried something that will
+  hopefully make it less slow..
+
+  * The apt package cache can be cleared from aptitude.
+
+  * Various crashes fixed.
+
+[12/3/2000]
+Version 0.1.0 "Release without a name"
+  * This is a BETA DEVELOPMENT RELEASE.  It is not fully functional yet; please
+  use older versions if you need missing features.
+
+  * The ui-rewrite tag finally belches forth a working binary!  Yes,
+  aptitude 0.1.0 is here at last.  Changes are too numerous to really list, but:
+
+  * vscreen is now a full widget library based on libsigc++, supporting real
+  layout, signals/slots (of course), and..um..lots of other good stuff.  Look
+  at the header files for more info (yes, I'll probably eventually fork it into
+  another project)
+
+  * this means that aptitude now depends (build and runtime) on libsigc++0.
+    Sorry, potato users :(
+
+  * On the plus side, we finally have a (links-style) menubar.
+
+  * User-specific options (in ~/.aptitude/config) are supported, and can be
+  explicitly saved by the user.
+
+  * The new version doesn't handle small terminals so well yet (and resizing
+  an xterm will cause a segfault!)
+
+===============================================================================
+Pre-0.1.0 versions begin here:
+
+[6/8/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.7.1 "D'oh"
+  * The limit of the preview screen can once again be modified.  Thanks to
+  Michael Politowski for pointing out a simple typo.
+
+[6/4/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.7 "Home from the Hospital"
+  * Displaying information about a particular package version will now use
+  the description of THAT version.
+
+  * Fixed some problems with the autotools suite.
+
+  * If the user's selections in the preview screen mean that something has
+  to be fixed-up, the program now does the fixing and presents another preview.
+  This addresses the following Debian bugs: #87774, #96559.  It may not fully
+  close them; I am not certain whether the problem in those bugs is that I
+  am incorrectly displaying the state of the packages, or that the problem
+  resolver is doing stuff behind the user's back.
+    Note: this is NOT forward-ported to version 0.1.x; this code is different
+  enough in that track that I'll have to come up with a solution separately.
+
+[5/3/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.6 "Groundhog Day"
+  * Really don't save extended state info if that info was modified (I thought
+  this worked in 0.0.8.4, but, doh, I actually had done it in the unstable
+  branch)
+
+  * Hitting "purge" on a package version now does the expected.
+  (Debian buf #96228, reported by the same JP)
+
+[5/1/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.5 "Bring Me A Shrubbery!"
+  * Fixed two bugs relating to translations, reported by the ever-vigilant
+  Michal Politowski:
+     - Reran gettextize so that translations get installed with usable names.
+     (Debian bug #95749)
+     - Changed "purge" to "purged" when it is used to describe a package's
+     current state.  (this lets translators distinguish between them, and is
+     probably better anyway) (Debian bug #95867)
+
+[4/27/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.4 "I hate finals"
+  * aptitude now only saves its extended state information if that information
+  was modified (Debian bug #93135, reported by JP Sugarbroad <taral@taral.net>)
+
+  * Don't segfault when the user searches while the cursor is on the last
+  item in the tree.  (Debian bug #95495, reported by
+  Len Sorensen <lsorense@opengraphics.com>)
+
+  * Added description of action/state flags to online help and README.
+  (Debian bug #93216, reported by Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr@pingu.ii.uj.edu.pl>)
+
+  PS - debian bug #90909, referenced below, dealt with a crash that occured when
+  updating the package lists while viewing information about a package.  Sorry
+  for the overly terse entry.
+
+[4/5/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.3 "Palindrome"
+  * Fix Debian bug #90909, reported by Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at>
+    This bug was due to the fact that I inexplicably overrode an important
+  method to do nothing.
+
+  * Added a Galacian manpage and help file.
+   Thanks go to Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@iname.com>.
+
+[3/23/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.2 "Midterms suck"
+  * Fix compile problems with apts in the 0.3 series.  (this one was actually
+  tested with 0.3, so there)
+
+[3/18/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.1 "Do you know how hard it is to come up with dozens of
+                 clever and witty release names?  I bet you don't!  I bet
+                 no-one even reads these!  I bet it doesn't matter if I rant
+                 for pages and pages and pages about teapots in the sky!"
+  * Fixed a long-standing but undetected bug.  It turns out that some packages
+  exist in the database but aren't available (they are called into existence by,
+  for instance, a dependency on a non-existant package)  But aptitude was storing
+  "sticky" state information for these packages.  This had a number of
+  subtle but potentially startling consequences; among them is the
+  fact that if a package of that name was eventually uploaded to the
+  archive, it wouldn't show up as "new".
+
+[3/16/2001]
+Version 0.0.8.0 "Roll over, roll over.."
+  * Galician translations, thanks to Jacobo Tarrio <jtarrio@iname.com>.
+   (is it a sign that your program is popular when people translate it to
+   languages you've never heard of?  Thank God for web1913 :) )
+
+  * Spent a few minutes figuring out how to do (non-sticky, sorry) installation
+   of a particular version.  Finally those version lists do what they oughta!
+   More or less.
+
+  * Incremented the third digit of the version.  Please don't laugh.
+
+[3/04/2001]
+Version 0.0.7.19 "Jubjub"
+  * help-pl.txt is really installed.
+  * Don't print spurious errors when the user enters blank patterns.
+  * The "search again" binding now really has two values instead of just one.
+
+[3/03/2001]
+Version 0.0.7.18 "Jabberwocky"
+  * Retroactively corrected NEWS entries which were in '00 but should have been
+   in '01.
+  * Fixed bugs reported by Michal Politowski <mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl>
+    - Accented characters in the status line are no longer displayed
+     incorrectly (a stupid sign-extension bug)
+    - Fixed a few cases of overeager marking of strings for translation.
+    - Fixed three crashes in the parsers for matchers and limits
+  * Entering an invalid limit will no longer occasionally cause dozens of
+   errors.
+  * Gave in and made "n" an alternate binding for "search again".
+  * Added Polish translation, contributed by Michal Politowski.
+
+[2/24/2001]
+Version 0.0.7.17 "I will not make a stupid Brown Paper Bag reference here"
+  * Fixed a horribly STUPID bug in the APT 0.5 support, involving me misreading
+   the prototype of VersioningSystem::CheckDep and passing the arguments
+   in reverse order from what it expected!  Oops.
+
+[2/23/2001]
+Version 0.0.7.16 "Brought to you by the letter F"
+  * Added two new translations:
+    - Finnish, contributed by Jaakko Kangasharju <ashar@iki.fi>
+    - French, contributed by Martin Quinson <mquinson@ens-lyon.fr>
+
+  * Made some formerly untranslatable strings in load_config.cc translatable
+   (thanks to Jaakko for pointing this out)
+
+  * configure.in now hacks around brokenness in some autoconf releases
+  that caused C++ code to break.
+
+[2/01/2001]
+Version 0.0.7.15 "Coda"
+  * Fixed a whole slew of bugs that Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> was
+  unfortunate to run into simultaneously:
+    - Running into an error while loading the configuration no longer causes
+     the program to panic and display a blank "we couldn't start successfully"
+     screen.
+    - Keybinding subgroups don't cause a spurious error message.
+    - If startup isn't successful (and thus the package file wasn't read),
+     trying to exit no longer causes a crash.  (just in case, added checks in
+     several other places for NULL pointers as well)
+    - The bindings for vs_tree (Aptitude::UI::Keybindings::Tree) can now also
+     be reconfigured from the toplevel, as expected.
+
+[12/18/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.14 "Grouping therapy"
+  * Suggestions and patches from Arto Jantunen <viiru@debian.org>:
+    - Tasks are now displayed as a separate "section"
+    - The hierarchy has been 'inverted'.  The primary grouping mechanism is now
+     the 'subsection', with the 'top section' above it.
+    - Redundant hierarchy such as "virtual/virtual" is no longer there.
+    - the online help explains about the 'f' key.
+  * Various bugs, crashes, and bad behavior with APT 0.4 thrashed out.
+
+[12/12/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.13 "Portage"
+  * aptitude should now compile without modifications against APT 0.4.  The
+  fancy new features won't be used and will probably never be hooked into this
+  branch -- the long-vapoured (but still slowly approaching) rewritten version
+  will be where I fiddle with that stuff.
+
+[11/27/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.12 "Bored in Providence"
+  * The long-standing TODO item of allowing a single package to be installed
+   without affecting anything else is more-or-less fixed, although I'm not
+   sure if it's the best implementation (actually, I'm sure it probably has
+   unfortunate glitches still..)  Press "I" and read about it in the README
+   (although I should clear that documentation up..)
+
+[11/26/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.11 "My Grandma, what big Segfaults you have!"
+  * Fix a long-standing bug that triggered a segfault-on-start in extremely
+   unusual circumstances (which is how it avoided me for so long)
+
+[11/26/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.10 "I didn't do it!  No-one saw me do it!"
+  * Errr...the changes in the last version included a hack to make packages
+   appear in the right indentation from the left-hand side of the screen.  This
+   hack also happened to cause the program to misbehave very badly in some
+   circumstances (eg, when trying to download packages)  I've replaced it with
+   a more invasive hack that actually works.  Oh, and I tested it this time.
+   Testing things is a good idea..
+
+[11/25/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.9 "YOW!  I've been LAID OUT by a COLUMN GENERATOR!"
+  * The only change in this release is a total rewrite of the column-generation
+  code.  It's much less crufty and should allocate space more cleverly on
+  larger displays. (this also fixes a debbts report)
+    The column configuration is slightly different; if you have a custom
+  configuration, you might want to check the README.
+
+[11/22/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.8 "Silence of the Turkeys"
+  * Fixed a minor typo in the README reported in the Debian BTS.
+  * Similarly, fixed a small interface bug with the package-limit string.
+  * Finally got around to adding the delete-to-end-of-line and
+   delete-to-beginning-of-line functions to the line-editor.
+  * Logs of install runs now display (for upgraded packages) the version being
+   upgraded from and the version being upgraded to.
+
+[10/27/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.7 "Pentecost"
+  * More translations (es_ES and pt_BR) added.  Thanks to
+   Jorge Carrasquilla Soares and Douglas Moura Ferreira for contributing
+   these.
+
+[10/15/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.6 "Package Management for Pern"
+  * Debian bug #74788 fixed: threads are eliminated if not available, allowing
+   aptitude to compile on the Hurd.  (go Hurders!)
+
+[10/13/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.5 "Friday the 13th"
+  * Fixed the bug reported by Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>, where "x"
+   had its view of its arguments backwards.  (this was introduced by the change
+   in 0.0.7.2 which altered the messages displayed when saving as an
+   unprivileged user)
+
+[10/11/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.4 "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
+  * corrected German translations.  Hopefully .de users won't mind no longer
+   being amused by my fractured Deutsch.  Thanks to Sebastian Schaffert
+   for contributing these.
+
+  * Masato Taruishi has contributed a patch to internationalize even more
+   strings (it is even possible to have language-specific online help,
+   although no internationalized help files are written yet)  He also
+   updated the Japanese translation to reflect this.  (the German translation,
+   unfortunately, continues to lag behind)
+
+[10/3/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.3 "If I only had a brain"
+  * aptitude now REALLY has a manpage.  (if it doesn't get installed by
+   "make dist", it's not in the program..)
+
+[9/23/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.2
+  * "Bug-reports keep fallin' on my head"
+
+  * aptitude now has a manpage.
+
+  * The program now works properly with local files (this was a problem
+   that arose from my abuse of libapt)
+
+  * If aptitude is run as an unprivileged user, pressing "q" and "x" no longer
+   mention saving anything.
+
+  * Merged in an i18n patch (thanks to Masato Taruishi for this and the
+   Japanese translation)  There is a German translation done by me, but
+   given the state of my German, a native speaker may want to send me
+   a corrected translation.
+
+[8/03/2000]
+Version 0.0.7.1
+  * "Faster than a speeding river of molasses" release.
+
+  * The lengthy hiatus here was due to the fact that I was originally
+   planning to fix a bunch of cruft and release quickly towards the
+   beginning of the summer <sarcastic laughter>  Then I decided to rewrite
+   the UI in a branch in CVS.  That's not done, but the more braindead
+   mistakes really ought to be fixed, and should have been back in May when
+   I found them...
+
+  * Aptitude can now generate a simple logfile when doing a dpkg run
+   (and optionally pipe it into a command)  It's not much (it should really
+   be sorted, or at least include more info), but it can help with "err, what
+   were those 500 packages I just upgraded?" situations :-)
+
+  * Column-formatting uses printf-style %-escapes instead of the old
+   method.
+
+  * Fixes the "DOH, lockfiles don't go in /" bug.
+
+  * file: URLs (ie, local package repositories) now work.
+
+[4/18/2000]
+Version 0.0.7
+  * The segfault that plagued 0.0.6.9 seems to be gone.  Thanks go to
+   Panu Hällfors <panupa@iki.fi> for helping me narrow the problem down.
+   Please let me know if you encounter similar problems (or, indeed, any
+   problems :) ).
+
+     The following changes were in 0.0.6.9 but not mentioned (oops):
+
+  * Wrote a proper help screen, so you don't get the full README when you press
+   '?'.  We still don't have a mechanism for dynamically adjusting the display
+   based on keybindings, but this should make things somewhat nicer for
+   newbies.
+
+[4/9/2000]
+Version 0.0.6.9
+  *  This version introduces undo capabilities.  You can undo any number of
+    actions on packages (install, remove, etc--even "forget new")  See the
+    manual for details.
+
+  *  As a result, there are now two ways to quit: "q" quits and saves changes,
+    and "x" quits and discards changes.
+
+  *  Major restructuring of the directory tree.  The toplevel now contains only
+    code for aptitude itself--low-level UI stuff is in vscreen/ and generic
+    useful routines (eg, the apt-cache wrapper) are in generic/
+
+  *  Major changes to the keybinding code; keybindings are now mostly shared
+    between the different contexts they occur in, with the ability to override
+    a keybinding in a particular context.
+
+  *  Added some alternative keybindings (vi-style and others), by popular
+    request.
+
+  *  Reorganized the TODO list and added a bunch of stuff to it.
+
+  *  Searching now handles virtual packages
+
+  *  Limiting on package names no longer segfaults
+
+  *  Columns with nothing to display should display a placeholder value
+    (eg, "<none>") instead of simply being blank.
+
+  *  Fixed various problems with detecting and flagging broken dependencies
+
+  *  Fixed various problems with the handling and displaying of OR groups
+
+  *  Reverse dependencies which occur because of Provides are now displayed
+    correctly.
+
+  *  There is no longer a default binding for just displaying a package's
+    description; "i" will display the full information screen by default.
+    (it's just as easy to see the description this way, and you get more
+     information as well)  The old behavior can be regained by binding
+    Description to "i": 'Aptitude::UI::Keybindings::Description "i";' in
+    /etc/apt/apt.conf  (you may need to remove the binding for InfoScreen
+    as well)
+
+  *  Various segfaults when trying to get information about virtual packages
+    were fixed.
+
+  *  You can now perform a package-list update or an install run from any apt
+    tree, not just a package list (or at least you should be able to)  Of course,
+    if the package you are viewing vanishes from the cache as a result, you will
+    be sent back to where you came from.
+
+  *  Added a match type, ~c, which matches removed packages with conffiles
+    remaining on the system.
+
+  *  You can now easily toggle the display of column headers at runtime by
+    pressing "h".
+
+2/06/2000
+Version 0.0.6a
+  *  Fixed a rather embarassing compile error that got into 0.0.6.
+
+2/06/2000
+Version 0.0.6
+  *  Greatly improved search capabilities.  You can now match on many different
+    attributes of a package, and combine search terms into complex expressions.
+    This is used both for searching and implementing "display limits", which
+    act as a filter for the visible list of packages.  See README for details.
+
+  *  Added commands to expand and collapse an entire tree of packages.
+
+  *  Searches now have a 'wraparound' behavior.
+
+  *  Actually set up a binding for Refresh, handle it globally.
+
+  *  Made the display of broken packages more uniform.
+
+  *  Fixed a problem that caused packages to be put on hold when you cancelled
+    a removal or an install.
+
+  *  Pressing "hold" on a package which can't be upgraded now /toggles/ the
+    sticky-hold state (it was hard to turn it off previously)
+
+  *  Fixed another dependency-OR handling bug which caused OR lists to appear
+    to include the first package before the list.
+
+  *  Changed the install-preview screen to more correctly packages whose state
+    was changed by fixing broken dependencies.  Packages which are being
+    installed or deleted for this reason get their own trees.
+
+  *  The amount of padding after a column can now vary by column and is
+    configurable.
+
+  *  Errors now use a single color definition, and are white on red.
+
+  *  You can now download and view the Changelog for a package (not perfect
+    yet: you get HTML cruft, not all packages work (that I may not be able
+    to fix) )
+
+  *  Fixed a bug which caused problems with displaying errors.
+
+  *  Added column types for the section and priority.
+
+  *  Added a minimal online-help system (just displays the README)
+
+  *  Internal change (not used yet): the vscreen main loop now supports the
+    registration of timers.  (configure with --with-periodic-beep to
+    enable a really annoying beep at one-second intervals)
+
+  *  Internal change: the status/header-lines and status widget handling of
+    vs_tree were split into a new class, vs_minibuf_win.
+
+  *  Internal change: vscreen::repaint no longer implicitly calls refresh.
+
+  *  Internal change: the code to orchestrate downloads moved to
+    download.{cc,h}
+
+1/19/2000
+Version 0.0.5
+  *  This release has a lot of bugfixes, column formatting support, and a
+    greatly fixed status-line editor.
+
+  *  Sanitized and made consistent a lot of arbitrary decisions about what
+    version to use when looking statistics up about a package.  The function
+    pkg_item::visible_version() handles this.
+
+  *  You can now get package information by pressing Enter while a particular
+    version of a package is selected.  Information about that version will
+    be displayed.
+
+  *  Don't crash if the user tries to update the package lists while not root
+    or while another apt is running.  (oops..)
+
+  *  The preview screen *should* separate out packages which can't be upgraded
+    because of broken dependencies.
+
+  *  Broken versions weren't being displayed with a "broken" color; fixed.
+
+  *  Throttle the update frequency of the progress bars; previously I was
+    updating as quickly as possible, which lead to a massive loading up of the
+    system.  This change greatly improved startup times.
+
+  *  libncurses5 sometimes sends KEY_RESIZEs -- don't assert their absence
+    anymore, just ignore them :)
+
+  *  column support!  Configurable!  This is really the major feature in this
+    release; see the README for more
+
+  *  Overhauled the status-line editing widget to fix a lot of small bugs and
+    greatly improve editing.
+
+  *  Added a single keystroke to repeat the last search (bind something to
+    ReSearch)
+
+  *  At the request of omega@anomie.dhis.net, added a status tree for obsolete
+    packages.
+
+1/10/2000
+Version 0.0.4a
+  *  "Faster than a speeding bullet" release.  (I really am starting to regret
+    trying to come up with clever names for releases. :) )
+
+  *  Had a sudden flash of inspiration and added the three-line fix needed to
+    hack around libncurses5's leaveok() brokenness.
+
+1/10/2000
+Version 0.0.4
+  *  "New Year's Resolution" release.  I actually managed to fix everything
+    which I claimed I would, but I've resolved never to promise to fix
+    something in the next release again.  Even to myself. ;-)  Also, I want
+    to release versions more often..
+
+  *  Aptitude now tries to Do The Right Thing with regard to the dselect
+    state of a package by adjusting its own state when the dselect state
+    changes in between runs.  This prevents the really bad problems I
+    experienced.
+
+  *  The interface coloration is now configurable (see README for details)
+
+  *  More information is available in the download screen -- the actual amount
+    of data dowloaded for each item and an estimated time to completion (for
+    everything) are displayed.
+
+  *  Compiles against libncurses5, although there's an annoying visual bug when
+    using libncurses5 that I can't get rid of (leaveok doesn't seem to hide
+    the cursor anymore..)
+
+  *  Fixed the bug which caused ORs in dependencies to apparently continue
+    forever (that is, "Depends: libc6, mutt | mail-reader, libncurses4" would
+    be displayed as "Depends: libc6, mutt | mail-reader | libncurses4")
+
+  *  Rewrote the various messages and interaction involving the status line
+    to be done the Right Way[tm].
+
+  *  Aptitude now (by default) displays what changes will be made -- that
+    is, which packages will be installed, removed, etc, before
+    performing a package run -- press the "install packages" key again to
+    continue.
+
+  *  Setting Aptitude::Auto-Install to true will cause dependencies of a
+    package to automatically be marked for installation when you select it to
+    be installed.
+
+  *  Aptitude now (by default) attempts to resolve missing dependencies and
+    fix broken packages before doing an install run.  To disable this, set
+    "Aptitude::Fix-Broken" to false.
+
+  *  A screen with all information about the package collected into one
+    location is now available (by default, you can access it by pressing
+    Enter while a package is selected)
+
+  *  Finally got rid of the visual bug that caused non-selectable things to
+    appear selected (I fixed it by not displaying them as selected even when
+    they are ;-) )
+
+  *  Added descriptive headers to the version and dependency lists.
+
+  *  Made the behavior of selections around non-selectable items much more
+    logical.
+
+  *  Package trees now display, in the header, an estimate of the number of
+    bytes which will be downloaded and installed on the next package run.
+
+  *  Packages can now be reinstalled.
+
+  *  Removed a lot of the old test code.  The next release will probably (see
+    my resolution :) ) rename "testscr.cc" to "main.cc".
+
+  *  Documentation updates.  Rewrote aptitude-hackers-guide.txt to be less a
+    file-by-file tour and more a high-level overview.
+
+  *  Included a real CVS commit log (see ChangeLog)
+
+12/20/1999
+Version 0.0.3
+  *  "Merry Christmas and a Happy Armageddon" release.  This'll probably be the
+    last Aptitude release before the year 2000.  Assuming that civilization has
+    not collapsed, expect to see another version early in the new year.
+    (hopefully before potato freezes ;-) )  If not, I guess I'll have to start
+    porting it to the abacus platform..
+
+  *  Configurable keybindings!  Rejoice!  See README for more info and
+    examples.
+
+  *  aptitude now has persistent state, stored (by default) in
+    /var/state/aptitude.
+
+  *  This is used to implement some dselect-like capabilities, including
+    'sticky' selections that persist across sessions and the ability to track
+    new packages.  New packages are implemented in a manner entirely orthogonal
+    to selection state, which means (in short words) that a package can
+    remain "new" for an indefinite amount of time, even after it's installed.
+
+  *  Two configuration options, Aptitude::Forget-New-On-Update and
+    Aptitude::Forget-New-On-Install, are provided to automatically clear the
+    list of new packages.
+
+  *  As an unforunate side-effect, dselect selections are no longer inherited.
+    The main reason is that I couldn't think of a clean way to save the
+    package states into the dselect database (calling dpkg --set-selections
+    should work, but you have to play with lockfiles then..)  And it's tricky
+    in general to try to manage two almost-but-not-quite identical databases
+    of info.
+     This may come back in the next release if I can work out how to do it
+    (but it'll probably be controlled by a flag and off by default)  On the
+    other hand, it's not really needed unless you're trying to mix dselect
+    and aptitude.
+
+  *  The package list can be searched.  This occasioned at least one really
+    nasty (but non-buggy!) hack, which I'll fix in the next release.  Currently
+    *only* package lists (not version lists, etc) can be meaningfully searched,
+    and searching only looks for substrings in the package name -- no
+    regexps or checking of descriptions. (guess when this'll be fixed?)
+
+  *  A progress bar is now available for initialization and so on
+
+  *  Errors are displayed by the UI (needs a little work still, but
+    functional..)
+
+  *  An annoying resize bug in 0.0.2 was fixed -- if you resized the xterm
+    during a download, everything would start to flicker.
+
+  *  Various segfaults, crashes, hangs, and visual quirks were eliminated.
+
+  *  This is the first release to get a tag in CVS! :)
+
+12/5/1999
+Version 0.0.2
+  * aptitude can now download and install packages!  This means that it's
+   now technically possible to use it in place of other package management
+   tools, although it's still lacking some stuff that would make it a really
+   useful program.  This is the major change, and the reason for the new
+   release.
+  * dselect selections are now inherited
+  * short package descriptions are displayed in the status line of the package
+   tree
+  * you can mark package *versions* for installation and removal (sometimes)
+  * broken dependencies should be visually flagged
+  * Various other bugfixes and tweaks.
+
+11/18/1999
+Version 0.0.1  --  Very preliminary alpha version released for comment and/or
+                   criticism.
+
+10/20/1999
+Version 0.0.0  --  Added automake support, it requires this file.
+                   Nothing else to say, I don't have enough code to make
+		   this file useful yet.