Bug#674523: apt-get manpage: please document option --solver
David Kalnischkies:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Control: severity -1 important
>>
>> Hi, I'm bumping the severity for this because it's many years old, and it is
>> hiding an important feature from users.
>
> *sigh* I implemented EDSP "all these years" ago and even I have no
> intention of documenting it if even fellow Debian Developers think apt
> bugs are magically fixed by bumping their severity to absurd values…
> Why not attach a patch instead? Would have been a million times more
> productive…
>
I would have written a patch, but I don't know how the flag works. If you tell me some information about how it works, I might submit a patch when I get some time.
>> [generic apt hate]
>
> Thanks, that is what I needed to hear today, too.
> Flaming about their software without any sort of details is how most
> developers are motivated to work on it after all.
>
Which part of what I wrote was hateful? Sorry if you are overloaded with other things and feeling frustrated, but it's impossible for me to have predicted that.
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