control: tags -1 pending thanks Hi,
On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 21:56 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 18/09/2023 20:12, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > Since Bug#1041708 was mentioned, I CC it. > > It is marked as "done", so perhaps you need to reopen it if you expect > some actions. > > > I propose to replace this line with > > > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > > > I think this don't drive people to set this to "stable" as much. > > From my point of view it is a bit better, but hardly noticeable. And it > is still misleading for Debian users since testing has security updates > as well, thus not so trivial regexp is preferred. apt.conf(5) has more > examples, but neither of them is close to what might be used in real life: Although, repository for testing security updates exists, it is hardly used in practice. > > Default-Release > > > > Default release to install packages from if more than one version is > > available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: > > 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', 'bookworm', 'trixie', '4.0', '5.0*'. > > See also apt_preferences(5). > > I believe that explicit warnings against usage of APT::Default-Release > will be helpful for users. > > I have not noticed issues with regexp and "apt-get source" or synaptic > in bookworm. Either they exist or not, mention of regexp as an option is > valuable from my point of view (with or without a warning concerning > lack of support in some tool). It will affect decision of those who are > aware of regexp from the bullseye release notes. > I don't want to spend too much on past release related bugs (including documentation). DR is an entry document so it shouldn't clutter. I decided to change DR as follows by drop mentioning "APT::Default-Release "stable": Current text: The target release archive can be set by several methods. * "/etc/apt/apt.conf" configuration file with "APT::Default-Release "stable";" line * command line option, e.g., "apt-get install -t testing some-package" Updated text: The target release archive can be set by the command line option, e.g., "apt-get install -t testing some-package" For APT bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041708 this is outside of my control and it has been closed by the maintainer. So I didn't CC this reply. Regards, Osamu
