Control: tags -1 + pending
Hi Patrick,
2008-02-13 09:20 Patrick Schoenfeld:
Hi Daniel,
sorry for the late reply.
Daniel Burrows wrote:
Losing Origin information by changing your sources.list is a bit of a
corner case. I suppose I could heuristically check all the packages to
see if any Debian packages existed in the cache, or (better) if any
packages at all had an Origin tag. However, note that this wouldn't
help if you had any package at all with Origin: Debian in your cache
prior to changing sources.list.
Okay, so I think we both agree that the problem is a corner case.
Then probably the real problem to solve is how the corner case is handled.
Another option would be to just change the message to say that either
it's not a Debian package or you need to run "update". But I believe
this would just confuse people into thinking they needed to run update
when in fact this is almost never going to help.
I agree that this wouldn't be so optimal. However there must be a possibility
to detect this case where sources.list has been changed, or not? Couldn't you
print two different messages depending on weither this is the case or not?
I changed this message to suggest an "update", so marking as +pending.
Thanks for the report.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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