Package: apt-listdifferences
Version: 1.20141011
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
There are number of questions with the tool which a user may not know
and doesn't know what to do when he makes a wrong choice.
For instance, I installed the package thinking it will give me just
the diff. and not download the source packages in full.
Also it didn't tell that it would download the source packages at
/etc/apt/ where I don't have the space to download the source archive
of all the binary packages I have.
Lastly, the manpage doesn't tell what to do in case you are stuck in
the initialization phase. It took me some time and error to find that
the initialization flag lives in /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
Name: apt-listdifferences/initialize
Template: apt-listdifferences/initialize
Value: false
Owners: apt-listdifferences
Flags: seen
The moment I changed it to true my issues were no longer there.
There is need to improve both the long description as well as the
manpage for the user to make an informed choice.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apt-listdifferences depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56
ii debian-keyring 2015.05.17
ii devscripts 2.15.3
ii python3 3.4.3-1
ii python3-apt 0.9.3.11
ii python3-debian 0.1.27
Versions of packages apt-listdifferences recommends:
ii diffstat 1.58-1
apt-listdifferences suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
apt-listdifferences/purge: false
* apt-listdifferences/initialize: false
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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