Control: tags -1 + pending
2016-11-04 12:28 ydir...@free.fr:
Just hit the same problem after adding a valid sources.list entry without having imported the repo signing key, and I can confirm it'the behaviour is really awkward - and reading suggestions that letting the user lose time until he figures out he has to restarti aptitude would be a valid way out instead of displaying a proper message to the user - that just makes me very uncomfortable, it's just not the level of software quality I have been expecting around here :)
JFTR, the suggestion was based on the behaviour that I was observing at the time: "It doesn't get stuck in "loading cache" -- it just shows errors, and one can continue normally." This seems to be due to changes in behaviour of apt or some strange interaction, because the relevant sections of aptitude have not changed in a long time. (I didn't experience the same behaviour because I couldn't upgrade my computer at the time). And I didn't say that I didn't want to fix it, just that at least the user should see some error and have some clue of what was wrong (which I was seeing at the time) -- so it was not extremely bad, from that perspective :-) Anyway, I think that I fixed it now, by not being strict with this kind of errors (to cope with what I think that it's a new behaviour from libapt)... I am just not sure if this change will bring other problems, let's see. In principle this fix will be included in the next release, so marking as +pending. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
