Upgrade nala to 0.15.4 in mx testrepo [was Package request: Upgrade nala to version 0.15.1]

[fehlix]

Can we get latest nala version 0.15.1.
Thanks

Some fixes worth to mention like this one:
* Fix nala waiting for input and not showing prompts

full changelog since version0.14:

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nala (0.15.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Changes ]
  * Update Swedish translations

  [ Bug Fixes ]
  * Fix shell completion failing due to help pages

 -- Blake Lee <blake@volian.org>  Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:13:54 -0600

nala (0.15.0) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Changes ]
  * Update translations
  * Improve version diff coloring
  * Add `--color / --no-color` switch

  [ Bug Fixes ]
  * Fix local install chooses wrong deps sometimes
  * Fix no dpkg title when using upgrade alias
  * Fix nala sometimes installs wrong dependencies
  * Fix nala not updating package lists with upgrade aliases
  * Fix apt config containing duplicate hooks
  * Fix aliases `--help` not showing manpage
  * Fix downloads failing if `/var/cache/apt/archives` doesn't exist
  * Fix fetch asking on `--auto` to write file
  * Fix wrong key in some translations
  * Fix help without sub command not showing man page
  * Fix nala waiting for input and not showing prompts
  * Fix `nala history` hanging on permission error (closes: #1041826, #1041821)

 -- Blake Lee <blake@volian.org>  Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:37:08 -0600

For the record:
nala description

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Description: Commandline frontend for the APT package manager
 Nala is a frontend for the APT package manager. It has a lot
 of the same functionality, but formats the output to be more
 human readable. Also implements a history function to see past
 transactions and undo/redo them. Much like Fedora's dnf history.

And nala usage with mx-updater/apt-notifier:

nala-upgrade.jpg

[BV206]

This is interesting. Sparky recommends uninstalling nala on their rolling version based on Debian Testing. They use the latest version of nala.
https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2024-04

[Adrian]

It looks like they claim it cannot deal well with broken packages, fortunately that doesn't really apply to a stable distribution.

[fehlix]

This is interesting. Sparky recommends uninstalling nala on their rolling version based on Debian Testing. They use the latest version of nala.
https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2024-04

Maybe a sparky issue:

Due to nala doesn’t full-upgrade packages properly and doesn’t handle with broken packages on Sparky rolling (8) I recommend to uninstall nala.

The original option for a full upgrade (what apt calls full-upgrade or dist-upgrade)
was always "nala upgrade --full".
They added later the alias "full-upgrade" so it looked similar to apt.
MX Updater is always explicitly using either
nala upgrade --no-full
or
nala upgrade --full
So not sure what issues sparky has with broken packages, probably a rolling symptom.
In case I would have broken packages, I'm would try to figure the issue and use apt anyway.
They mentioned some fixes with alias handling in the changelog,
may this is related to sparky's issues.

[Stevo]

It's been in the MX 21 and 23 test repos for about a week now... https://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/pool/test/n/nala/

[fehlix]

It's been in the MX 21 and 23 test repos for about a week now... https://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/pool/test/n/nala/

Don't have any issues with latest nala, maybe we can move nala to main for both MX21 and MX23.
Thanks

[Stevo]

I haven't had any trouble since backporting and installing it a week or so ago, but I would hope to get some more developers and users testing it first, to avoid a repeat of the Bullseye kernel-Nvidia driver debacle.

[Kulmbacher]

works perfect, thank you. MX-21.3

[ghunter]

Hi

I discovered nala after watching Chris Titus youtube
https://youtu.be/oroSkR4Nn_w?si=OfOlm7zlvudkO4XE

Just tested it. It works for me. The thing I like most about it that

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$ man nala 

reports that

nala downloads packages in parallel

also I did a

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# nala fetch

and it found a fast mirror I had not see before.....I admit, I had not tested mirrors in a long time.
nala fetch then allowed me to keep a number of mirrors (for parallel downloading).....I chose 3 YMMV

in summary......the way info is presented is good.....speed is good

[Kulmbacher]

since weekend nala 0.15.1 also working on MX-23.2_ahs

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