Re: "apt-listbugs list postix" doesn't tell error ...
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:56:13PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: "apt-listbugs list postix" doesn't tell error ...
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:02:03AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:36:53PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:38:11PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > A small comment about the command "apt-listbugs list".
> > By mistake I wrote "apt-listbugs list postix" instead "apt-listbugs list postfix"
> > and I got:
> >
> > Reading package fields... Done
> > Reading package status... Done
> > Retrieving bug reports... Done
> > Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
> >
> > So I did "apt-get install postfix" ---------------8<-------------------
> > Reading package fields... Done
> > Reading package status... Done
> > Retrieving bug reports... Done
> > Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
> > grave bugs of postfix (2.4.6-5 -> 2.5.1~rc1-1) <pending>
> > #311812 - postfix: syslog reconnection
> > Summary:
> > postfix(1 bug)
> > Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
> >
> > I was surprised ...
> >
> > Why "apt-listbugs list postix" doesn't notify like "apt-get install postix":
>
> because its postFix not postix.
Ummm, read it again Sam, er Andy.
-------------------------8<-------------------------------------
you will see that it doesn't specifically report that there is no
package "postix" only that there is no record of it. Maybe that's a
problem with BTS in that it should give more explicit information. But
at the same time, why does BTS care about every package? It should
only care about those that actually have bugs (a very fine distinction,
I know). I'm curious what BTS would report for the mythical "never had
a bug report" package. And if apt-listbugs has to start being aware of
whether a package exists or not, at what point does it begin to
over-duplicate the package searching capabilities of the apt
frontends?
Also, I suppose there is a possibly faulty assumption that since
apt-listbugs is designed to be run through an apt frontend then typos
aren't really a concern. Obviously, at least one user calls it
directly, so the devs might want to consider that.
If apt-listbugs is make to be triggered by apt-get, it anwsers to my
"small" comment and so it's to the user of apt-listbugs to verfy wether the
package postix exists or not.
Thanks
--
Gérard
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et non ceux qui se vantent de l'avoir trouvée.
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