Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> > > AFAIK apt-listbugs only displays open bugs, if the bug is closed >> > > then it won't get displayed. >> > >> > It will be displayed even when it's closed. It does have some >> > heuristics to avoid showing irrelevant bugs. >> > >> > >> > > Ideally apt-listbugs needs to be updated to support the new >> > > versioning system in the BTS. >> > >> > Taru; we've discussed face-to-face about handling the new BTS >> > versioning features last month[1]; how about implementing it? >> >> Just be aware that it might show irrelevent results, cf. bug #334884. > > Instead of specifying 'version=dist=unstable', specifying the > exact version number seems to work, doesn't it? > > > As for apt-listbugs, apt-listbugs will know which version is going > to be installed, and can check the metadata (summary file) directly, > checking the Fixed-In tag to see if it's relevant or not.
I have the impression that apt-listbugs on sarge always displays completely irrelevant bugs. For example, when I installed udev on a new machine recently, it displayed a lot of RC bugs which do not exist if you use sarge's udev with sarge's kernels. In this particular case it was interesting to learn how the upstream and Debian maintainers of udev think about stability, but that's not the purpose of apt-listbugs, I guess. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer