[Touch-packages] [Bug 1835645] Re: apt sources should be able to understand release variables

2019-07-07 Thread Prasanna V. Loganathar
@juliank - *my suggestion is use variables in apt, which provides an option. It's not forcing a design decision of how it must be done. Fedora/RHEL is a good example of where it works and dispels your empty argument that it causes a terrible user experience. However, based on your comment, the dis

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1835645] Re: apt sources should be able to understand release variables

2019-07-07 Thread Prasanna V. Loganathar
@juliank - my suggestion is use variables in apt provides an option. It's not forcing a design decision of how it must be done. Fedora/RHEL is a good example of where it works and has dispels your empty argument that it causes a terrible user experience. However, based on your comment, what disagr

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1835645] [NEW] apt sources should be able to understand release variables

2019-07-07 Thread Prasanna V. Loganathar
Public bug reported: apt sources conventionally use a fixed release name. But this causes both adding repos as well as upgrading an unnecessarily painful experience. For instance, adding a simple package requires adding the keys with `apt-key` and then adding the repo, and then apt update/apt inst

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1813403] Re: Better kernel core dump defaults

2019-01-26 Thread Prasanna V. Loganathar
** Package changed: procps (Ubuntu) => ubuntu ** Description changed: Currently, `$ sysctl kernel.core_pattern` gives `kernel.core_pattern = |/usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %d %P` This should be considered a bug, since a minimal version of ubuntu (server, core etc) and

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1813403] Re: Better kernel core dump defaults

2019-01-26 Thread Prasanna V. Loganathar
** Description changed: Currently, `$ sysctl kernel.core_pattern` gives `kernel.core_pattern = |/usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %d %P` - This should be considered a bug, since a minimal version of ubuntu or - even debian, and more notoriously when run from containers, this wi

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1813403] [NEW] Better kernel core dump defaults

2019-01-26 Thread Prasanna V. Loganathar
Public bug reported: Currently, `$ sysctl kernel.core_pattern` gives `kernel.core_pattern = |/usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %d %P` This should be considered a bug, since a minimal version of ubuntu or even debian, and more notoriously when run from containers, this will just error out, with