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Bug#512920: marked as done (installation depending upon urgency)

Your message dated Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:30:50 +0200
with message-id <20150821113019.GA7052@debian.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#512920: apt: installation depending upon urgency
has caused the Debian Bug report #512920,
regarding installation depending upon urgency
to be marked as done.

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X-debbugs-cc: aptitude@packages.debian.org
Package: apt
Severity: wishlist

Gentlemen, one day there should be a way to use the "urgency" field. I
hereby present the following long term wishlist item.

Say a maintainer makes a minor change in a package, e.g., adding a
missing punctuation mark in some documentation, but will be going on a
long vacation soon, so pushes his changes to the repositories.

He wishes to say: "For those users installing the package for the first time,
by all means, get the latest package. But for those users merely
tracking the latest version via apt-get upgrade etc., downloading all
those bytes would really be a waste. Don't bother."

Anyway, it seems apt lacks functionality to differentiate the two
cases, or at least for the user to use the "urgency" field as seen in
the apt-listchanges messages.

Anyway, "just use the stable distribution" is not what we're talking
about here. This is not a sid vs. experimental, etc. issue.

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On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:33:08PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Summary: "urgency" is not intended as a recommendation of upgrades for
> the user (even if sometimes can be interpreted as such; and often
> misinterpreted), and the meaning cannot be overloaded as in the
> example of the original bug report as a means of communication
> maintainer<->user.  The changelog entries are.  So I don't think that
> this feature should be implemented.
> 

I agree. Closing.
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