Bug#378972: qa.debian.org: mia-history does not work

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Package: qa.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> The qa page links to section 7.4 in the developers' reference which says
>> that "there is" a tool mia-history to query the MIA database.  First of
>> all, I would have expected that this is in the path, and I would suggest
>> to put it there.
>
> AFAIR, mia-history is dead and has been replaced by mia-query. The
> devel-ref should probably be updated.

Ah, and there's already a bugreport with patch, #350792.

What about

--- mia-history.orig	2006-07-20 10:38:42.000000000 +0200
+++ mia-history	2006-07-20 10:38:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@
 import re, string, sys
 import apt_pkg, status
 
+print """
+
+   mia-history is deprecated, please use mia-query instead!
+
+"""
+sys.exit(0)
+
 def help():
     print """Usage: mia-history [OPTION]... [PATTERN]
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Thanks, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)