Bug#476951: aptitude: must run apt-listbugs before downloading packages
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:01:57 -0700
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> apt-listbugs is invoked because it's listed in Dpkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs.
> This is the hook for commands that are invoked just before dpkg is
> called to install the new packages. aptitude doesn't even invoke this
> directly; it happens behind the scenes when the apt library is told to
> run dpkg.
>
> In order to get the effect you want, you would need a new hook that
> ran before any download started, and aptitude would have to explicitly
> ask to invoke it (as would all the other apt frontends).
It seems that this might lead to complex changes.
Do you think this is the only right thing to do?
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