Hi Osamu Aoki, 2010/2/20 Osamu Aoki <[email protected]>: > Hi, thanks but I find typos in your fix. I see you changed texts from > my patch. This is fine but typos are not :-) mhh. I really thought i had written a mail before… strange. Anyway: I changed the text a bit as the paragraph sounds a bit to scary: Pinning itself can't effect system stability - It causes uninstallable packages or strange choices while upgrading, but your system will not be broken in the "broken-package-state"-sense. More personal reason: I don't like the term "unstable" as it has way to many meanings… (A debian unstable system isn't unstable, only the unstable archive is unstable [= dependencies tend to be broken]).
The other point is that i consider a not strong enough version dependency already as an important bug as you will always have at some point a mixed system - maybe only in between the apt-get dist-upgrade (or similar) run, but even in this stage all configured packages should work… It is out of scope for the apt_preferences manpage to indicate that a package from unstable maybe has more bugs than one from stable -- but it is absolutely possible that wrong pinning of stable in a testing environment will cause similar problems to the reversed environment setup… > The upcoming apt_preferences(5) manpage (e.g.: apt_0.7.26~exp2_i386.deb) > states: > > Preferences are a strong power in the hands of a system administrator > but they can become also their biggest nightmare if used without care! > APT will not questioning the preferences so wrong settings will > therefore lead to uninstallable packages or wrong decisions while > upgrading packages. Even more problems will arise if multiply > distribution releases are mixed without a good understanding of the > following paragraphs. You have been warned. > > I think you need to run > s/questioning/question/ > s/multiply/multiple/ Sorry, i am an idiot, will be corrected for unstable. > on apt_preferences.5.xml to meke these understandable. s/meke/make/ ;) More suggestions welcomed to improve it further. I tend to use the wrong words and i have the "mad-typist"-superpower. q.e.d. ;) Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
