Am Mittwoch, 30. November 2016, 23:39:40 CET schrieb Francesco Poli:
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> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:31:41 +0100 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
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> Hello Martin,
> thanks for your bug report.
Thank you for your detailed answer.
[…]
> > cause Michael downgraded the severity of that bug to "normal" and thus
> > from
> > what I understand apt-listbug would not protect my system from upgrading
> > to
> > the newer broken chromium version in unstable.
>
> Well, what will happen is that apt-listbugs will remove the pin, since
> the bug that you fear was downgraded to a severity ("normal") that
> apt-listbugs ignores.
Hmmm, okay.
> To avoid the automatic pin removal, you have two possible strategies
> (that I can think of):
>
> (a) you may include "normal" in the list of severities to be considered
> by apt-listbugs (see option AptListbugs::Severities
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs ; this option may for instance be
> set to "critical,grave,serious,important,normal")
>
> (b) you may create a manual pin outside of apt-listbugs jurisdiction
> (without Explanation fields and in files other
> than /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs ; for instance in
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/chromium-pin )
I know how to manually pin and I chose that approach now.
I just had the hope that I could use apt-listbugs as that would automatically
remove the pin for me if the bug was solved.
> > I do hope that apt-listbugs will automatically remove it once the bug is
> > fixed,
>
> I am afraid apt-listbugs will remove the pin on the next run of its
> cron daily job...
I would help to ease handling of bugs with lower severity that I personally
determine as being critical like in this case where Chromium is basically
unuseable due to the crashes at every second click on a webpage.
> > I didn´t see a way to do it after looking at the manpage of apt-listbugs
> > tough.
>
> Indeed, apt-listbugs is not intended to be an on-demand package pin
> generator. It will generate pins for packages that would introduce
> bugs (of one of the configured severities) into your system.
Hmmm, I understand. So for apt-listbugs I need to rely on the judgement of the
Debian developer or maintainer or confront myself with lots of uncritical bug
reports.
Well it was an idea and I thought a useful one. You are maintaining and
developing (?) apt-listbugs, so… its your call. Feel free to close the report
as wontfix if you do not intend to create such a feature.
Ciao,
--
Martin
