Hi all,
>> (modifiers btw is not a good word. I guess it was never documented so far partly as this is a rather advanced feature and mainly because naming things is hard)
yes, we brought it up in our conversation but I agree it was not directly related to the subject as it was an apt advanced option. But it was good because we were able to compare different situations (to spice things up). We even talked about "apt-get" and "aptitude" but I understand they are different commands and the purpose was not to compare behaviours among different tools.
>> Well, does it really matter who is and who isn't?
No, it doesn't as long as they have the right information ;)
Of course, the more people involved in the issue, the better perspective we have on the problem. But it is important to know how apt is *currently* behaving to avoid misunderstanding and wrong assumptions (even from my side as well). We discovered that it is a documentation bug but my initial premise when I opened the bug was that the resolver wasn't working properly. With the right information, we usuallly get faster to the solution. Thank you all, guys!
>> Nobody is born an APT developer, they are chosen based on their patch offerings!
;)