Re: New proposed-updates diff: apt 0.9.7.9
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:45:08PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
> On 2013-06-04 12:03, Debian Queue Viewer wrote:
> >+apt (0.9.7.9) stable; urgency=low
> >+
> >+ [ Ludovico Cavedon ]
> >+ * properly handle if-modfied-since with libcurl/https
> >+ (closes: #705648)
> >+
> >+ [ Andreas Beckman ]
> >+ * apt-pkg/algorithms.cc:
> >+ - Do not propagate negative scores from rdepends. Propagating
> >the absolute
> >+ value of a negative score may boost obsolete packages and
> >keep them
> >+ installed instead of installing their successors. (Closes:
> >#699759)
>
> Apologies if I missed the previous discussion, but how much testing
> have these changes had in a stable environment? Modifications to
> things like scoring algorithms in a stable update make me a little
> nervous (particularly less than two weeks before a point release).
> :-)
Indeed, this looks a bit scary. Andreas tested this with piuparts (see
#699759) quite a bit. Its in unstable since Wed, 08 May 2013.
Cheers,
Michael
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