Bug#578020: apt-get: --fix-policy not documented

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas Schwinge!

First of all: Thanks for your report! :)

2010/4/16 Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>:
> I had installed packages with ``apt-get --no-install-recommends'', now
> wanted to additionally install the packages' ``Recommends:'', and
> wondered how to do that in an automated fashion.
Note that the "automatic fashion" currently installs the recommends
for ALL packages. We have no way to express "fix the policy only for
package A". (Should be changed, but looks non-trivial at first glance
but i will give it a try later)

> neither has the APT IRC channel
The channel is pretty lowtraffic - as well the list or even bugreport
responses - simply by the fact that the active member count of
the APT team is… lets say: … low.

> answer my question privately: --fix-policy, as mentioned in
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html>.
> That's worth documenting in the manpage, I'd say.
I'd say so, too. :)
Do you have any suggestions for wording?


Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

David "DonKult" Kalnischkies