Your message dated Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:20:57 +0000
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Bug#1100180: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #311868,
regarding base: Packages do not indicate whether installing them changes system
operation
to be marked as done.
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Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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311868: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311868
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Package: base
Severity: normal
Some packages install binaries and docs.
Others start daemons, modify startup scripts, or change config files
(e.g. bigcursor) when you install them. If you install them
accidentally, you might regret it.
There is no way for a user using dselect to tell the difference
without a lot of work. For example, will ipkungfu actually change
your firewall or do you have to run it first?
The description field for social reasons will remain unreliable. It
rarely contains information like "this does not start a daemon".
To make the solution work for programs and humans, there should be a
field in the db that indicates this. Maybe with a tag for
binaries-and-docs-only for most packages and installs-daemon,
modifies-startup, modifies-config, etc. for others.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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Version: 2.1.5+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package debtags has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1100180
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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