On Mon 12 Jun 2023 at 19:26:41 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2023-06-12 at 18:55, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 11 Jun 2023 at 19:18:15 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2023-06-11 at 17:36, David Wright wrote: > > >>> There are several sources: > > > > [ snipped the back and forth ] > > > > I'm sorry, but I just can't take seriously your not being acquainted > > with the term "release". > > Please don't put words in my mouth. Of course I'm familiar with that > term. I just don't think of it when updating, perhaps in part because I > update routinely when a release has not happened.
I was surprised; sorry to exaggerate. > Either blocking updates which would change this information protects > against something, or it doesn't. > > This is the only meaningful thing that I can think of that it could be > protecting against, aside from cases where people didn't realize that > what they were using was a symbolic name. > > If it does meaningfully protect against something that applies in my > case, then I want to retain that protection. If it doesn't, then that's > one less argument for why it should be done at all. Perhaps one way to deal with this is to modify your earlier alias suggestion to alias apt-get-change 'apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change' which has no effect during normal use, but allows you to circumvent the problem when you next encounter the error message. > I think this just reflects how wide the gap between the way you think > about these things and the way I think about these things is. I guess so; takes all sorts. > As before, however, every time I've tried to put a reason why - or an > alternate explanation of my perspective on this, which might make more > sense - into words, I've run into some kind or another of wall. > > I suppose I should just stop trying to argue for my perspective on these > mailing lists at all; I can't even remember the last time it went > anywhere positive, or even necessarily didn't go somewhere unfortunate. That would be disappointing; I read and keep many of your posts, and would put misunderstandings down to the lack of nuance in emails, as opposed to face-to-face conversations; I'd hate to cause any offence. Cheers, David.