Hi Junichi, you wrote (in #389903): >> > Unfortunately apt-listbugs was neglected for such a long time that >> > apt-listbugs in stable is broken without hope of repair. >> > >> > Please remove apt-listbugs package and then install after upgrade to >> > sid is finished.
389903 submitter: >> There is also the issue where the package for apt-listbugs does not >> appear to be any different in Testing, as in Sarge. (running `aptitude >> -t testing install apt-listbugs` made absolutely no difference). Maybe >> I should make this an RC bug? A testing package which is broken? N.B. this is because the apt-listbugs package does not exist in testing (it was previously removed from testing due to RC bugs). Junichi Uekawa: > There is no point in making this bug report a RC bug. > > Backporting apt-listbugs to sarge may help. > > It was neglected for the past two years or so, and I've just been > wading through the list of bugs for the past two weeks to get things > remotely working. > > If you think apt-listbugs was working a few weeks ago, you were > dreaming; what it showed you is a snapshot of bug reports back in May > 2005 or something; since the job to update the indices was broken and > nobody fixed it. Should the apt-listbugs package be removed from stable since it's no longer at all usable there? (possibly with an announcement to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that?) CC'ing to debian-release to see what the SRMs think. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
