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Bug#533266: marked as done (release-notes: Look for newly important/required packages)

Your message dated Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:59:16 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#533266: release-notes: Look for newly important/required packages
has caused the Debian Bug report #533266,
regarding release-notes: Look for newly important/required packages
to be marked as done.

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Package: release-notes
Version: lenny
Severity: normal

I think that after upgrade it could be useful to
look for packages that should be installed.

aptitude search '(~prequired|~pimportant)!~i'

When what's important or required changes the
upgrade instructions (afaik) don't say how
to install the newly important packages.

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  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 16:36:18 -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> On 03/30/2013 12:01:35 PM, David Prévot wrote:
> > Le 30/03/2013 12:39, Karl O. Pinc a écrit :
> > > On 03/30/2013 11:30:45 AM, David Prévot wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:13:09AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > 
> > >>> I think that after upgrade it could be useful to
> > >>> look for packages that should be installed.
> 
> > > I can't say if it's relevant for wheezy, but it may well
> > > be relevant for future releases.
> > 
> > I actually wonder, what are the chances a new required or important
> > package actually needed is not pulled during the upgrade? 
> 
> It happened to me for Lenny->Squeeze, although at this late
> date I can't recall what was missing.  (I usually start with
> a base install, and often add little more.)
> 
We can revisit this if a concrete case is brought up again, but I don't
think there's a reason to add this in general.  Required packages are
either Essential (in which case they're pulled in by apt) or
dependencies of Essential.  Important ones would probably be handled on
a case-by-case basis, but most likely have stuff depending on them
anyway.

Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
julien

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