On Mi, 15 iun 11, 19:32:13, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Additional to this, my suggestion: ... > 2. An option, to see, which files will be installed BEFORE the first > installation or at renewing (although, I think, apt-file might be able > to handle this somehow, not sure) Why would I care about *every single file* installed by the package manager? That's why there is a package manager, to handle this ;) > 3. And last but not least: An option, to blacklisting broken packages! (very > important) apt-listbugs and aptitude's forbid-version (as already mentioned) > For Point 3., some thoughts: In the past there were sometimes broken packages > in debian/testing, which were running fine in stable, were fixed in sid, but > never fixed in testing, until they went from sid to testing. (At the moment > there is a problem with the kernel "unable to enumerate usb device", which is > fixed in 2.6.39.1 , but all kernels between 2.6.32-5-amd64 (version > 34) and the mentioned kernel version above are broken. What do you mean by broken, they work fine here. > How are those problems handled? If they are handled at all! Handled by whom? Users? > Please don't feel bothered, but that is a problem, which I discovered from > time to time. I thought about that, but found no solution yet (except by > transferring working packages fron sid to testing as fast as possible). You might want to test rolling (a.k.a bob) ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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