Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.0.48
Severity: important

It seems to me that on sarge, with the new versioned BTS (or whatever
change in the BTS), apt-listbugs displays every open RC bug as relevant
for the current upgrade, even if was only in a version in unstable.

This makes it actually nearly useless or even harmful, since if 90% are
false positives, what you gain by pressing ENTER once more?

I haven't systematically investigated this, it's just my impression on
my sarge system.  If it is really a general problem that happens all the
time, I'd consider this to be a grave bug with even security
implications (because if you're used to pressing ENTER to apt-listbugs
upon every security upgrade, you might easily do it also in the rare
case where a security update only fixes one of two security holes, the
unfixed being the more severe in your situation).

Regards, Frank


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii  apt                        0.5.28.6      Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libdpkg-ruby1.8            0.3.1         modules/classes for dpkg on ruby 1
ii  libintl-gettext-ruby1.8    0.11-5        Gettext wrapper for Ruby 1.8
ii  libruby1.8 [libzlib-ruby1. 1.8.2-7sarge1 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libxml-parser-ruby1.8      0.6.8-1       Interface of expat for the scripti
ii  ruby                       1.8.2-1       An interpreter of object-oriented 

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-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer


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