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On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:09:30 -0400 Douglas F. Calvert wrote: > Package: apt-listbugs > Version: 0.1.8 > Severity: wishlist > > Please use /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs instead of the top level > /e/a/preferences file. Hello Douglas, thanks for your feature request. My first gut feeling about the feasibility and motivation of this change is that *maybe* it could be a good idea, or *maybe not*. I am under the impression that apt-listbugs could have been designed to use /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs from the beginning (assuming that the directory /etc/apt/preferences.d/ was available when apt-listbugs was first designed and implemented...), and it would have probably been a reasonable design choice. But switching from one strategy (/etc/apt/preferences) to another (/etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs) could be tricky and implementing a safe transition could be less than painless... Hence, I *may* be persuaded to implement this change in the future (of course not during a freeze, so we will have to wait until after the wheezy release, at a bare minimum!), but there need to be *significant* advantages with the new strategy in order to persuade me. Could you please briefly elaborate on the rationale behind your feature request? Why do you think that apt-listbugs would be a better package with this change? Please let me know. Thanks for your time! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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