Re: New proposed-updates diff: apt 0.9.7.9

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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). :-)

Regards,

Adam