"aptitude is a terminal-based package managemer with a number of
useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages
in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the
ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most
packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.

aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing,
and housebroken."

Using ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
I was a bit surprised to find in synaptic the above - is this someone
poking fun, if so it doesn't seem very professional to me.

I read that Aptitude was the Debian preferred package manager and i
use to use it with versions 6.10 ,7.04. In 7.10 i found that it didn't
seem to close and was listed in launchpad. Since then i haven't used
it and the fault doesn't seem to have been rectified. Has anyone else
found this.