Additional to this, my suggestion: 1. An option, to read the changelog BEFORE a package is installed or upgraded.
2. An option, to see, which files will be installed BEFORE the first installation or at renewing (although, I think, apt-file might be able to handle this somehow, not sure) 3. And last but not least: An option, to blacklisting broken packages! (very important) For Point 3., some thoughts: In the past there were sometimes broken packages in debian/testing, which were running fine in stable, were fixed in sid, but never fixed in testing, until they went from sid to testing. (At the moment there is a problem with the kernel "unable to enumerate usb device", which is fixed in 2.6.39.1 , but all kernels between 2.6.32-5-amd64 (version 34) and the mentioned kernel version above are broken. How are those problems handled? If they are handled at all! Please don't feel bothered, but that is a problem, which I discovered from time to time. I thought about that, but found no solution yet (except by transferring working packages fron sid to testing as fast as possible). Thanks for your patience! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201106151932.14494.hans.ullr...@loop.de
