Bug#642757: apt-listbugs

2011-10-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:45:03 +0700 Alexey Salmin wrote: > Thank you, Francesco! You're welcome! :-) [...] > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Francesco Poli > wrote: [...] > > In your example, if I understand correctly, you upgrade > > nvidia-graphics-drivers and crash xserver-xorg-core. > > T

Bug#642757: apt-listbugs

2011-10-18 Thread Alexey Salmin
Thank you, Francesco! Actually your mail convinced me that this should be discussed more widely. It's probably too early for a bugreport on the apt-listbugs because my original idea with using the "affects" field will not work as is (see below). This is why I'd like to hear opinions from debian-dev

Bug#642757: apt-listbugs

2011-10-18 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-10-17 21:37, Francesco Poli wrote: > I hope I expressed myself clearly enough. > Maybe I should add the above explanation > to /usr/share/doc/apt-listbugs/README.Debian.gz > Do you think that it would help in understanding why apt-listbugs > ignores the "affects" field? I think it could he

Bug#642757: apt-listbugs

2011-10-17 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:30:56 +0700 Alexey Salmin wrote: > Does apt-listbugs consider the "affects" field? Probably I'm wrong but > it seems that it doesn't. Hi Alexey, you are right that apt-listbugs does not take the "affects" field into account. But there's a reason for this: a good reason, I b

Bug#642757: apt-listbugs

2011-10-16 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2011-10-17 04:30, Alexey Salmin wrote: > Does apt-listbugs consider the "affects" field? Probably I'm wrong but ... > I think this is a really good point of possible improvement. Anybody > mind if I create a wishlist on apt-listbug? Please go ahead. Thanks Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#642757: apt-listbugs

2011-10-16 Thread Alexey Salmin
Does apt-listbugs consider the "affects" field? Probably I'm wrong but it seems that it doesn't. Many people got almost unusable desktops without any warning despite the fact this bug had been reported already. You upgrade one package and crash another, this is exactly what "affects" is for. I thin