On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 16:47 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > This ended up being handled more "complex": apt defaults to 'false' > now as this is an interactive tool, while apt-get defaults to 'true' > for the moment (aka for stretch) to allow suboptimal (infrastructure) > setups a bit of transition time. Uff... don't you think that having different defaults for different tools is quite easily ambiguous? > Note that even if its set to true a warning (+ > 2 notices) is shown so that is a pretty big step forward already. Sure... that's why I've only set severity normal. :-) > You > also can't "downgrade" a repository from signed to unsigned any > longer > (by default – the option right below this one), so I am mostly happy > in > how 1.1 handles this and we haven't gotten too many complains about > it > yet, so the tradeoff choice seems to be about right. So is this going to be changed sooner or later? I just had the impression that it may have been simply forgotten ;-) The change was already 2014, if I remember the changelog entry correctly. > This english no sense it makes as the grammatic seems to be slightly > yoda. My thought, pretty much this was ;-) > apt-secure mentions this option as well btw. Yeah, I've seen that, but apt.conf(8) seemed to be the "canonical" documentation. > Autogenerating that would be nice, but that is hardly possible – > after > all, if the default changes how would that paragraph even make sense. Well, it doesn't really work with the current writing of the documentation. One would need a more neutral style like: >Option Name >Summary: foo bar bar >Default Value: @Whatever@ >Details: If set to "foo" then bla is done. If set to "bar" then your > hard disk is going to be wiped. > What you could do is adding metadata to such paragraphs which could > then > be validated against reality. Yeah, that would be nice… but its also > work to implement such a system. Can I assume you are volunteering? Hmm ATM not, it seems really to be quite some invasive change to the documentation... > Happy "package managment" days and best regards Hope you had some nice holidays as well :) Cheers, Chris.
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