On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:09:17PM +0200, Robert Luberda wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > > > > Otherwise I discussed your patch with Guillem quickly the other day and he > > would like to store the seen/not-seen information in a common place (i.e. > > shared by all frontends). I'm not sure there's enough time to implement > > this in the squeeze timeframe. Guillem mentionnend reverting part of the > > problematic changes if he can't manage this in time, I'm not sure I like > > this, I would rather commit something based on your patch. > > I was aware of Guillem's intentions, after all he put the magic > `frontend-unified state file' phrase in the bug's #551638 description :) > I think it's a nice idea, but probably not for squeeze. Even if you > manage to add such a file into dpkg on time for squeeze, most probably > aptitude, synaptic and any other frontend (besides dselect) won't > switch to using it so fast. So how about implementing temporary > dselect-only solution for now and implementing the proper solution for > squeeze + 1?
I'd like to vote for getting back the old functionality, where one could easily see which new software was available in the archives. If that means Robert's two patches, with a temporary solution and other frontends following suite after squeeze, by all means make it so. This is dselect functionality from back when apt did not exist and there were no other package management frontends in Debian. Don't leave it broken in a stable release. KR, Filip -- http://blog.sysfs.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
