Package: libapt-pkg-dev Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist Right now, apt's error API essentially tells the program "an error occured somewhere, here's a human-readable description". This is a nice feature, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to distinguish particular errors. For instance, if a package list file is missing, a frontend could automatically fetch new lists (or that particular list) to fix the problem.
Currently the only approach is a hack: parsing the error string returned by apt. And of course i18n will break even that. If users could access an integer or an untranslated string token that identified the particular error condition, that would be great. Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux torrent.burrows.local 2.4.19 #3 Tue Sep 24 13:11:57 EDT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set) Versions of packages libapt-pkg-dev depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3 0.5.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | A conclusion is the place | | where you got tired of thinking. | \------- (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) --------/
