Debian Releases APT 2.9.3 With New Package Solver
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The new 3.0 solver "solver3" is a fully back-tracking solver, manually installed packages aren't promoted for removal, auto-remove is more aggressive, and other improvements over the current solver code.
For the time being this new solver on APT 2.9.3+ is only activated if using the "--solver 3.0" command line option. Debian developer Julian Andres Klode who spearheaded this new APT 3.0 solver has written a blog post with more technical details on this solver.
More details on the APT 2.9.3 changes for this development release via tracker.debian.org.
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