On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:45:08PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, Hi, > On 2013-06-04 12:03, Debian Queue Viewer wrote: > >+apt (0.9.7.9) stable; urgency=low > >+ > >+ [ Ludovico Cavedon ] > >+ * properly handle if-modfied-since with libcurl/https > >+ (closes: #705648) > >+ > >+ [ Andreas Beckman ] > >+ * apt-pkg/algorithms.cc: > >+ - Do not propagate negative scores from rdepends. Propagating > >the absolute > >+ value of a negative score may boost obsolete packages and > >keep them > >+ installed instead of installing their successors. (Closes: > >#699759) > > Apologies if I missed the previous discussion, but how much testing > have these changes had in a stable environment? Modifications to > things like scoring algorithms in a stable update make me a little > nervous (particularly less than two weeks before a point release). > :-)
Indeed, this looks a bit scary. Andreas tested this with piuparts (see #699759) quite a bit. Its in unstable since Wed, 08 May 2013. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130604152252.GR3209@bod
