Hi,

> I am a user of apt-listbugs and find the idea of listing bugs very
> good. One downside is that bugs have to be manually checked to find
> out if and how it applies to the current upgrade.
> 
> To be more useful, I am suggesting that apt-listbugs prints which bugs
> get fixed by installing a new version, which bugs are introduced and
> which are unchanged.
> 
> Suggested output for package foo:
> 
> Upgrading package foo (1.1-1 -> 1.2-2) will have bugs ...
> fixed:
>   #11 - foo: displays no output
> introduced:
>   #17 - foo: displays garbled output
> unchanged:
>   #10 - foo: it is not useful
> 
> This way, administrators can see easier if an upgrade fixes bugs or
> even introduces new problems.

Currently, only the 'introduced' is shown to the user. unchanged and
fixed are ignored.

It may be useful to have this feature, I'm not sure if it's really
important to show the 'fixed' or 'unchanged' part.  Is it really
adding more information for the user or is it just adding noise?


regards,
        junichi
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