Bug#238214: apt-get: warn the user when it is known that an upgrade may break the package system

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.23
Severity: wishlist

There should be a way to warn the user when some other user already
reported that an upgrade may break the package system, without having
a *clean* way to go back to a previous working state (for instance,
"apt-get install -f" doesn't work). This would behave a bit like what
apt-listbugs does, but would be specific to the package system. This
would probably require a new tag.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-newpmac
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.3-1    GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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