On 2013-07-10 20:52:15 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > But this can be preferable if the removed package has security bugs > > and has been removed for this reason (the user wouldn't be aware of > > that with the current behavior of apt). > > > > Perhaps another solution rather than downgrading is to warn the user > > that something is wrong. > > I don't think it is possible to do this in any sane way. For example, > if you locally rebuild your package, adding something like +local1 to > the version; that version won't be available from any source; but you > still don't want APT to complain that you installed a locally-built > package.
To avoid such problems, apt could remember where an installed package came from. Such information, that could be stored in /var/lib/apt/extended_states, could also be useful to other tools, such as apt-show-versions. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
