Am Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2015, 23:23:40 schrieb Francesco Poli: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:12:57 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Package: apt-listbugs > > Version: 0.1.16 > > Severity: important […] > > I told it to pin package but I used the bug number instead of the > > package > > to pin in "p" command. > > Well, why did you do that?
Cause I am a human being, and yeah, despite > The online help (that can be obtained by typing '?' at the apt-listbugs > prompt) says: I made this mistake? > > Expected results: > > > > Either prints an error message or does pins the package the bug is made > > for. > > What if the user really wants to pin a package named "791869"?!? > > I think that apt-listbugs cannot consider this as an error condition. > And it cannot assume to know what the user wants better than the user > him/herself: hence, it should not replace the string "791869" with the > name of the package(s) the bug number is assigned to. > > Maybe I could implement a check that warns the user, when none of the > bugs that affect the user's package upgrade are assigned to the package > the user wants to pin and asks whether the user wants to proceed anyway. > I'll think about it. How about asking for a confirmation if the package given with "p" command is not within the list of packages apt-listbugs just displayed before? Usually the user reads the bugs apt-listbugs shows and then the user would often add a package from one of the bugs? Or at least check for the package I give it to exist before proceeding? See apt-listbugs didn´t catch my user error and due to that I got an lvm2 package installed that renders the system unbootable (well I didn´t yet reboot on mine, so I don´t know for sure for my system). So if there is a reliable way to catch that kind of user error, I think it would be good to have this. But on the other hand, do you really think a package name just with numbers is a valid package name? I never saw one that has just numbers. > But, anyway, I consider this to be a wishlist bug. Sure, sorry. I first thought apt-listbugs was just not doing what I told it, but then noticed my usage mistake but forgot to lower severity. And thanks for packaging and developing apt-listbugs. It is really a handy tool. Thanks -- Martin
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