Hi! I am one of the current co-maintainers of apt-listbugs. I reviewed this bug log and I think that your desired behavior (that is to say: letting apt-listbugs show bugs, without stopping the installation/upgrade process) is achievable through a little modification of your system configuration.
If you change your /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs into something
like:
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs
// Check all packages whether they has critical bugs before they are
installed.
// If you don't like it, comment it out.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs -y apt || exit 10";};
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
you will obtain the desired behavior.
Please note that your needs do not correspond to the typical use-case
of apt-listbugs, hence I am *not* willing to change the configuration
file shipped with the package: you will have to manually modify this
configuration file on your boxes...
Also note that this configuration could even be made conditional:
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs
// Check all packages whether they has critical bugs before they are
installed.
// If you don't like it, comment it out.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs $APT_LISTBUGS_OPTS apt ||
exit 10";};
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
This way, it will blindly go on installing packages *only* if an
APT_LISTBUGS_OPTS environment variable is set to "-y".
Otherwise, if APT_LISTBUGS_OPTS is unset (or set to a zero-length
string), apt-listbugs will behave as usual.
However, I think that such a conditional configuration is a bit risky,
since *anything* could be included (even by mistake) in the
APT_LISTBUGS_OPTS environment variable...
I hope this helps.
If you don't have objections, I am going to close this bug report.
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