https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481697
--- Comment #2 from John <[email protected]> --- Pretty much every time I install updates I prefer to see which packages are upgraded and to what versions. I do it for curiosity and also for excitement, when I see major upgrades of the Linux kernel, Mesa, Plasma, Firefox, etc. But I also do it for safety, since I use Debian, which doesn't have a backup and restore in case of problems system in place and it is just too hard to do it manually. In the past I had to reinstall Debian multiple times because the upgrade of one of the broke the login screen so bad that I could not login anymore and I didn't know how to fix that without reinstalling. Luckily by watching which packages were upgrading before the break and happening multiple times I got the conclusion that the most dangerous one is the upgrade of Qt package. So I avoid it when I see it until I'm sure I can deal with the potential breakage, like in the week-end. Another package upgrade that caused a major annoyance to me was the upgrade of libtorrent package. Luckily again that I watched what packages were upgrading and knowing that my Qbittorrent used Libtorrent as the back-end, as soon as I discovered that Qbittorrent, where I had more 100 torrents was not opening anymore, at all, with no error, both visiually and when started from terminal, I knew which is most likely the culprit. Since I was using Debian's testing repository, I tracked down the same package, but in the stable repository, downloaded it and installed, which made a downgrade of Libtorrent and I was very happy to see that Qbittorrent opened again and I could access all my torrents there, without losing anything. But for about 2-3 weeks I had to uncheck (untick) the package update for Libtorrent every time I was searching for updates. It would be nice if the updater had a way to uncheck (untick), ignore an package update termporarily, like for a week or a month or permanently. I know that you can do something from command line with Apt, but it's a hassle. Anyway, that's my use case and what I prefer. BTW, is there a possibility to ignore a package update with updates that are applied after reboot? Because I don't think I have seen one and it would be shame to be able to do it only with the other type of updates. If I can't do it and I really need to ignore a package update I will have to switch to the other type of updates and that is a hassle too. As for reading changelogs, I would like to have that possibility too. I"m not always in the mood to open a web browser to find that package project page and read the changelog there. I'm not a fan of things that take too much time, especially when they could be easier. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
