Bug#238214: apt-get: warn the user when it is known that an upgrade may break the package system
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:51:27AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Er, what problem are you seeing *exactly*? Please paste relevant program
> output.
>
> Otherwise, there is no way to know what is going wrong, and we'll have to
> close this bug.
It sounds like he wants a tool like apt-listbugs, but implies that it
doesn't do what he wants.
What do you want exactly?
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- mdz
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