On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote:
It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade?I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical:Summary: libreoffice(2 bugs), akonadi-server(1 bug), libkf5auth5(1 bug), libqt5x11extras5(1 bug), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37(1 bug)and if it would be a good idea to continue if possible? Because putting them on hold doesn't allow upgrading.
apt-listbugs allows you to query the bugs listed in that summary. Read the bug reports and see if they apply to you. Sometimes the bugs are things like "Fail to build from source [FTBS] on sparc64". This IS a bug, but if you're not running the sparc64 architecture, then the bug doesn't apply to you and you can go ahead an upgrade.
Similarly, if you find a bug that does concern you, you can ask apt-listbugs to pin the package, which means that the buggy version will be forbidden from your system. apt/aptitude will then A) try to calculate an upgrade which honours that hold (so dependent packages will also be held back, but non-dependent packages will be upgraded) and B) upgrade to the next-allowed version when it becomes available (assuming you don't also pin that one).
Charlie
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