Package: wajig
Version: 2.3
Severity: wishlist
Please reinstate wajig's simulation and teaching modes! They are incredibly
useful parts of
the package, empowering the user and building user knowledge and skills.
The 2.3 release notes justify their removal:
* The "--simulate" and "--teaching" options:
- they don't don't apply to a lot wajig commands
- they display ugly output
- I doubt if anyone will miss them
But we DO miss them!
The simulate mode is really essential -- it's very informative, and it doesn't
matter if
it's ugly. There are very frequent cases where it's extremely useful to know
the
consequences of an action before taking it. This has often saved me a lot of
grief.
The teaching mode is educational -- even if the output is ugly and incomplete.
We're trying
to learn about Debian's complex package managing system, and this mode gives us
the benefit
of an experienced user (wajig's author) training us to understand the system.
Please don't take away these very helpful modes! They don't have to be perfect
to be useful.
Cheers,
David
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (100, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38.6 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_US)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wajig depends on:
ii apt 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii dselect 1.15.8.11 Debian package management front-en
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze6 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-apt 0.7.100.1+squeeze1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii python-central 0.6.16+nmu1 register and build utility for Pyt
wajig recommends no packages.
Versions of packages wajig suggests:
pn alien <none> (no description available)
pn apt-listbugs <none> (no description available)
pn apt-move <none> (no description available)
pn apt-show-versions <none> (no description available)
ii debconf 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
pn deborphan <none> (no description available)
pn dpkg-repack <none> (no description available)
ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment
ii fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
pn gkdebconf <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-tasksel <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-terminal <none> (no description available)
ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii lynx 2.8.8dev.5-1 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
pn python-glade2 <none> (no description available)
pn python-gnome2 <none> (no description available)
pn python-gtk2 <none> (no description available)
ii reportbug 4.12.6 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
ii sudo 1.8.3p1-2 Provide limited super user privile
pn vrms <none> (no description available)
ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web
-- no debconf information
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