Control: severity -1 wishlist On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 1.8.2 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > there are several places where apt is IMHO overzealous in trying to > teach the users in how to use it: > > $ apt list --upgradable > packages.list > > WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in > scripts. > > Yes, the interface might change in the future, but that's IMHO no > reason to nag about that fact every time. > > The same happens in "really interactive" mode: > > $ apt list --upgradable | less > > WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in > scripts. > > Please just drop that warning. The program does work when invoked in > these ways, and if I insist in writing bad shell scripts, it's not > apt's responsibility to tell me about it.
We have to do _something_. apt is an integral part of the system, and we want to be able to break things without breaking everybody's system maintenance scripts. If we remove like a space in apt-cache policy output, people get mad. It's severily limiting us from doing anything useful on the CLI UX. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
