On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:44:43AM +0900, Masato Taruishi wrote: > Hi, I'm writing a tool 'apt-listbugs' which retrieves bugs from > the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. Especially, > apt-listbugs is invoked before each installation by apt > in order to check whether the upgrade is safe. If it finds > critical bugs, you can stop the installation and save your > system. This package should be useful for developers and/or > users of sid. > > Of cource, it's needed that anyone reports the critical bug > to BTS to save our own system :)
At what phase of the upgrade will this tool run? How will it determine whether the bug actually applies to the version of the package being installed? Or will it rely on the user's manual review to approve every package? -- - mdz
