Bug#156578: apt: When does a wishlist bug get promoted to serious?
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.28.6
Followup-For: Bug #156578
Ya -- 4 requests on what should be a fairly high-priority basic feature.
On a bug that really should be classified as "Serious" or similar AFAIC.
And, no, "do it yourself" is _not_ an option here (what a lousy cop-out
knee-jerker that one is...) We all can't be full-time Debian mavens.
Even half-time, unfortunately. Some of us have to fight fascism -- while
others supply the open OS to do it with... Division of labor and all
that. Remember?
Long ago, apt-get should have incorporated something along the lines of
the wget '--limit-rate' command-line switch, as has been mentioned
earlier. It has always been an obvious priority (and I need not get into
why) -- but has consistently been shunted aside for some reason.
Just how incredibly hard could this little project be?? It concerns a
fundamental piece of Debian, and will likely affect millions of Debian
users in future! (Probably in countries without much cable
infrastructure.) In a system based on volunteer labor, we can all wait.
But going on how many years, now, have we been waiting on this thing?
Consider this a request to make this wishlist item an *actual bug*,
somewhere below (but not far below, eh?) "Release Critical".
As for the hacks: they have never worked for me. But maybe I'm just too
stupid to understand why jumping thru hoops is an acceptable substitute
for what should be normal procedure in any case.
-- grok.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (998, 'testing'), (501, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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