On 2019-02-07 11:25, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Control: reassign -1 apt-listbugs 0.1.28 > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: retitle -1 apt-listbugs: simplify wording for pinning description
> ... > I've reassigned this bug to apt-listbugs as that is the appropriate > package. If you can suggest an appropriate improvement to the wording > of the above help text then that would be useful. Well, since you asked ... 1) Maybe for the user prompt, adopt the style of 'reportbug'; something like: How to deal with the listed bugs [y|n|a|#..|p..|i..|w|?]?" Y This intentionally breaks the convention of upper-casing the default, since the default is written anyway, and because ... 2) My druthers would be for option 'a' to be made an upper-case 'I' and the unqualified option 'p' be made an upper-case 'P'. 3) If there already exists an option 'n' that can stop the APT installation, why can't an unqualified 'p' option do the same? What further operation are you expecting a user to do after 'p'? Requiring an extra manual step introduces an unnecessary opportunity for user-error, and introduces confusion of when and how to perform the abort. 4) The extended prompt, and the man page documentation, make it seem like pinning is done for all or none of a package's listed bugs; it's unclear whether in a case of two or more bugs being listed for a single package, if its possible to pin only a sub-set of the bug list, eg. 'p <num>' or 'p b<id>'. 5) The 'p' option seems to be able to handle a list of packages, which is a nice convenience, but the parallel option 'i' isn't annotated that way. 6) There doesn't seem to be a command-line method to recover from a keying error or a decision-change regarding pinning or ignoring a bug - something like a 'u' option to undo a particular change, and a 'U' option to undo all changes. For those options to be practical, it would be useful to have yet another option 'R' to redisplay all bugs, including those prior marked 'ignored' or 'pinned'. 7) So your simple request did eventually get me here, with the following for the extended prompt, which definitely pre-supposes changes to option keys and functionality: | How to deal with the listed bugs [y|n|P|I|U|R|r|w|#..|p..|i..|u..|?]?" Y | | y - install anyway. Do not mark the bugs 'ignored'. | n - stop the APT installation. | P - pin all the listed bugs, and stop the APT install | I - continue the install. Mark the bugs 'ignored'. | U - remove all pins and ignore states. | r - redisplay the bug list | R - redisplay the bug list, with ALL pins and 'ignored' bugs. | w - redisplay the bug list in HTML | ? - redisplay this help. | | In the following options <arg> may be an entry b<num>, a | debian bug number <num> or #<num>, or a package names. <args> | may be a list of those, in any combination. | | <arg> - display bug detail, using querybts | p <args> - pin pkgs (Later, you must select 'n' to enable this). | i <args> - ignore bugs on future APT runs. | u <args> - remove pin and 'ignore' states Regards. -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0
