Comment 20 for bug 92862

No you're right - it's very easy to fix this. I added a configuration file (per user) that allows you to choose aptitude. Simple variable was not enough because I think with apt you need two programs and with aptitude you only needed one and I had some localization issues. I cannot remember exactly.

As for my whines - they are generally expressing why I'm not touching c-n-f for quite a while. They are not specific to this problem (except for the part that I didn't ever upload fixes to ubuntu myself and always needed help with that which does slow things down)