Bug#513248: Attach lexical information to configuration file entries.

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

Package: libapt-pkg-dev
Version: 0.7.20.1
Severity: wishlist

  Sorry, no patch -- I wanted to jot this down before I forgot.  Bug
me if I haven't sent a patch in a few weeks. ;-)

  For the purpose of providing the user with diagnostic information,
it would be nice if apt stored some extra data while parsing
configuration files.  Specifically, configuration items could get a
few extra fields: "filename" and "line of file".  This would, e.g.,
let a front-end tell a user that "^linux-image.*" will never be
auto-removed because of the setting at line 5 of
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove.

  Since it changes a structure size, this is an ABI breaker and not
appropriate for Lenny.

  Daniel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libapt-pkg-dev depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 0.7.20.1   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-utils                     0.7.20.1   APT utility programs

libapt-pkg-dev recommends no packages.

libapt-pkg-dev suggests no packages.

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