apt-listbugs unusable in Sarge
Hi Junichi,
you wrote (in #389903):
>> > Unfortunately apt-listbugs was neglected for such a long time that
>> > apt-listbugs in stable is broken without hope of repair.
>> >
>> > Please remove apt-listbugs package and then install after upgrade to
>> > sid is finished.
389903 submitter:
>> There is also the issue where the package for apt-listbugs does not
>> appear to be any different in Testing, as in Sarge. (running `aptitude
>> -t testing install apt-listbugs` made absolutely no difference). Maybe
>> I should make this an RC bug? A testing package which is broken?
N.B. this is because the apt-listbugs package does not exist in testing
(it was previously removed from testing due to RC bugs).
Junichi Uekawa:
> There is no point in making this bug report a RC bug.
>
> Backporting apt-listbugs to sarge may help.
>
> It was neglected for the past two years or so, and I've just been
> wading through the list of bugs for the past two weeks to get things
> remotely working.
>
> If you think apt-listbugs was working a few weeks ago, you were
> dreaming; what it showed you is a snapshot of bug reports back in May
> 2005 or something; since the job to update the indices was broken and
> nobody fixed it.
Should the apt-listbugs package be removed from stable since it's no
longer at all usable there? (possibly with an announcement to
debian-announce@lists.d.o or something like that?) CC'ing to
debian-release to see what the SRMs think.
best regards,
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