Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
MAFM> Current status: there are 287 updates available (4 added from last MAFM> run), 4629 newly available packages (3 less compared to last run), 3 MAFM> broken packages left (3 new from last run). I think I pretty much understand what that is finally saying, for what it's worth. By the way, th

Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-09-10 13:28 GMT+01:00 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson : > All I know is > > "No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used." > > is totally understandable by me, N

Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-09-10 12:43 GMT+01:00 Sami Liedes : > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: >> > Isn't it bad to output something the user doesn't understand even if >> > they didn't use -v? >> >> I disagree with users not understanding that, or that being a big >> pro

Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
All I know is "No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used." is totally understandable by me, So all that needs to be done is have that mystery line of g

Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread Sami Liedes
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > > Isn't it bad to output something the user doesn't understand even if > > they didn't use -v? > > I disagree with users not understanding that, or that being a big > problem. The first message, "There are 0 new [-1]

Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-10 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2015-09-10 4:42 GMT+01:00 : > MAFM> Anyway, in the end I changed it only slightly, "aptitude -v update": > > How about for plain aptitude, no -v. > I (happily) remember 10 years ago there was no such message. As I see it, the problem is that if we remove the message after being there several year

Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-09 Thread jidanni
MAFM> Anyway, in the end I changed it only slightly, "aptitude -v update": How about for plain aptitude, no -v. I (happily) remember 10 years ago there was no such message. Isn't it bad to output something the user doesn't understand even if they didn't use -v? Or maybe there should be a way to f

Bug#458351: "Current status" looks like an error warning

2015-09-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags 588237 + pending Hi all, I reply primarily to this bug report because the message is slightly different now; but I am including all bug reports and submitters here. The previous incarnation of the message was like "There are 0 new [-1]". 2010-07-06 12:24 jida...@jidanni.org: P