Christian Perrier blogged about the
recent revival of the aptitude package manager. As the main
maintainer had less time to dedicate to it, the number of bugs
against aptitude was continually growing and reached more than 800.
But last November, Daniel Harwig and Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
started working on it, triaging bugs and preparing a possible new
version.
If you want to help them, join the
aptitude-devel
mailing list on Alioth.