On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 08:03, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > I, for one, don't care very much about the dependency, but more about > the fact that not having it installed could mean not being able to pull > the information, even by installing afterwards. A dpkg.log parser would > always work, except when the logs are rotated and old enough to have > been removed.
I tend to agree with Mike here: a log parser would be very nice, like something dpkg-log last_ops <package> <N> <op_N, like purge install remove etc> <package> <version> <N-1> <op_N-1> <package> <version> (<prev_version> if needed) <N-2> <op_N-2> <package> <version> <N-3> <op_N-3> <package> <version> <N-4> <op_N-4> <package> <version> or a series of other interesting commands. Default logrotate configuration keeps a year of log, so we have quite a bit of room even for the very lazy bug reporters :) What I'd like to avoid (with the reportbug maint hat on) is to let reportbug parse a log file (either dpkg or xapian) to extract the info it needs. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
