Hi, you are welcome to analyze the flaw in the logic, and submit fixes to the versioning logic, if logic improvement can result in better result.
At Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:16:41 -0500, Drake Wilson wrote: > > Note that this might be less annoying if bug listings were exact. > As it is, and as the apt-listbugs man page mentions: > > Note that apt-listbugs can't probe all the critical bug reports > that really applies to the package of the version. This means > that some bugs are listed because of a conservative reason even if > the bugs don't actually apply to the version. You need to review > the bug. > > This is fine for interactive use, and the requirement to add the bug > to the ignore list first might be justifiable even for non-interactive > use if only bugs marked in the BTS as present in the target version > would stop the install. Unfortunately, the inexact matching makes the > latter false, so it's quite easy for apt-listbugs to stop an update > that _fixes_ a bug from being installed until you manually ignore the > bug, which is not ideal. > > Just a thought. > > ---> Drake Wilson > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]