Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf

2013-04-07 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Francesco, On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:22:27PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote [edited]: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:09:43 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > The current apt-listbugs text user interface displays the bugs that > affect the installation/upgrade and then offers the user the following > pos

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf

2013-04-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:09:43 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > Hi guys, Hi Serafeim (and sorry for the very late follow-up), > > Attached a proof-of-concept for the advanced use case (in which the user > actually wants to review which buggy packages to pin or upgrade). Consider > this as a basi

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf

2013-03-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 01:09:43 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > Hi guys, > > Attached a proof-of-concept [...] Hi Serafeim, I'll struggle to find a little bit of time soon to analyze what you sent. Sorry for not reacting quicker than that... :-( -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-tr

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf

2013-03-23 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi guys, Attached a proof-of-concept for the advanced use case (in which the user actually wants to review which buggy packages to pin or upgrade). Consider this as a basis for further discussion, rather than something anywhere near a working patch. To give it a try, save the attached files in th

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-20 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:03:28 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: [...] > I think technical minded users would appreciate the same level of options > currently provided by apt-get ran as root, ie. to be able to upgrade selected > RC-buggy packages while pinning others. To me, it is of paramount import

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-19 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi guys, On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:07:20AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:34:03 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: > > [...] > > On 17 March 2013 16:17, Francesco Poli wrote: [..] >ยท -n, --force-no Assumes that you select no for all questions. >This option is assume

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-19 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 19 March 2013 07:07, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:34:03 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: >> What follows is a somewhat >> verbose justification and answer to some of your previous questions. >> Responses should go to #628996 only, please. > > Excluding your address and also Serafei

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf

2013-03-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:33:11 +0100 Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: [...] > Francesco, implementation details aside, are you OK with the direction? More or less, but I believe that implementing a debconf frontend for apt-listbugs is not a small change: hence, I think it should be seen as a mid-term/long

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf [was: Bug#628996: Bug#671726: Bug#671728: Bug#671726: apt: should be able to provide hook information through a named pipe]

2013-03-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:34:03 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: [...] > On 17 March 2013 16:17, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:41:52 +0800 Daniel Hartwig wrote: > > > > [...] > >> Debconf may provide a suitable interface there > > > > Please see the bug log of #628996 for more details

Bug#628996: apt-listbugs: please use debconf

2013-03-18 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:00:51PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 18 March 2013 18:56, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: [..] > > If I understand correctly, debconf can only be used with predefined > > templates, > > thus predefined generic policy questions (as opposed to questions that can > > be >