Keeping track of bugs in installed and to be installed packages is a pain and requires a user to manually look bugs up on debian's website. I would LOVE to see a button, dialog, or something in gnome-apt to automatically grab the bug list from the web site for a given package upon user request. The button/widget should be available for both the currently installed version, and the available version. This way, a user can get an idea of what bugs are known in each, to make a more educated decision whether or not to upgrade or install. Of course this bug lookup would not work unless the machine had a network connection, but, to those with an internet connection, it would be of HUGE value. Another useful ability would be to 'display all bugs of severity X or above in all installed packages' so that a user could keep track of known bugs. This would help busy system admins who want to stay updated about security bugs, etc, but dont have time to watch and read every message on bug traq. This would allow users to go out and get fixes before they are available as updated deb packages, if required.
Anyway, just an idea that I had :) Thanks for listening, Mathew Johnston
