On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:55:38PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > Yes, dpkg, apt-get, aptitude and synaptic all work perfectly fine.
> >> The debug command addresses my concerns here. > > You know this command doesn't actually exist, right? AFAIK it's only > > referenced in an Ubuntu wiki spec, and this part of that spec doesn't appear > > to have been implemented. > As far as I can see none of this is actually present now. The > archive scripts have not been modified, there is not debug/* archive > section, there are no downloadable share, yada et al helper packages > have not yet been modified. > So I would actually have been very surprised were > aptitude/synaptic ahead of the curve and had current support. > This whole thread seems to be about getting policy to write up > things, with most of the proposal currently not implemented in > Debian. Now, I think you meant to warn me that some of the currently > proposed features do not have code in other distributions either, and > that's fair warning. Er, the point is that you've plucked this "apt-get debug" out of the *Ubuntu* spec, <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptElfDebugSymbols>; that spec is considered implemented, Ubuntu doesn't have such a debug command, and Emilio's proposal at <http://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages> makes no mention of implementing this. Yet your messages come across as though you think it's a foregone conclusion that this command is going to be implemented. So given that specification of apt-get commandline options *definitely* doesn't belong in Policy, and no one has agreed to implement 'apt-get debug', I think you might want to make your concerns about the package management tools explicit. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org