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Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?



On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:42:25AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-08-06 15:13:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > because breakage due to python occurs too frequently), it is important
> > 
> > I still don't have any evidence that python breaks frequently.
> 
> This is based on personal experience. Unfortunately I haven't kept
> statistics, but I'd say, taking into account the serious bugs that
> directly affected the use of my machines and those I could avoid
> (e.g. thanks to apt-listbugs), this should be about 4 per year. This
> may seem low, but this is much more than what I get with the other
> base packages (libc6, perl, xorg...).

Can you describe the breakage?  I've found that packages that rely on
python for a GUI break (GUI freezes), I've always blamed it on the GUI.
Base python itself I've never had break.

Doug.



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