Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist Regarding the recent breakage due to libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 it would be nice if apt could download a notes file (eventually containing some "hold" statements) and display these warnings to the users. As long as the file is kept small it could be loaded from a smaller set of servers (and updated much faster!)
I think of some statement in /etc/apt/sources.list like notes http://www.debian.org/debian/ unstable main which could then contain a note like "Don't upgrade libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 - it will break lot's of stuff" (eventually also containing a parseable line like "avoid: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (= 1:2.95.4-12)" which could be used to prevent apt from upgrading this package) Maybe this could even be realized as an apt plugin. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bombadil.xmldesign.de 2.4.18-wolk3.7 #3 Sam Nov 2 22:54:50 CET 2002 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignored: LC_ALL set) Versions of packages apt depends on: hi libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-14 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
