On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:29:05 -0400 Calum McConnell wrote: > When it comes time to upgrade or not, or pin packages, the 'p' > menu requires the user to enter the full package name of whatever > package they want to stop the upgrade of.
Hello Calum, thanks for your interest in seeing a usability improvement in apt-listbugs! > This is undesireable for obvious reasons, since many packages > have lengthy names. While waiting for the new feature to be implemented, please note that it is often possible to copy and paste package names, whenever they are lengthy or, at any rate, in order to avoid typos. I acknowledge that this is not *always* feasible and/or convenient, but still... > A more concise approach would be to also accept a bug number, > like other menu items. To prevent collision between actual > packages and bugs, the syntax could be #<bug-number>, as # cannot > appear in any valid package names. This new feature has already been suggested, among other things, in bug [#921583]. I will probably attempt an implementation in the future, but I haven't yet got around to it, unfortunately. [#921583]: <https://bugs.debian.org/921583#40> Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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