On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
You already have 1.3.5-1 installed, and upgrading to 1.3.5-1+b1. The
question you have raised is that "is the newly discovered bug filed
against 1.3.5-1 and not yet fixed by 1.3.5-1+b1 relevant to your
upgrade to 1.3.5-1+b1 ?"
If you've seen the bug report in the past, you won't see it again.
Ah, OK.
So the question is, if there is a bug which is relevant to the current
version AND the new version, should you know about it.
Yes, you should. That wasn't the question I was asking. I was asking whether
you should be asked whether you want to abort the upgrade as a result.
Say, if the bug report is 'The postinst script deletes all of your
harddisk if you install the package at 1AM in the morning', you want
to know about it. If the bug report is 'The package is broken for some
specific case, and not applicable to you', you don't want to know
about it.
However, there is no reasonable way of knowing that beforehand, and
apt-listbugs is leaning on the safer side.
Does this sound reasonable to you?
Yes.
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