Bug#629527: apt: should warn (or emit an error) if symbolic and code-names mixed in sources.list

2011-06-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 07/06/11 14:05, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:46, Matthew Vernon wrote: For most users, most of the time, mixing symbolic (stable, unstable) and code-names (lenny, squeeze) in sources.list is a mistake, and will lead to trouble. In which way? You are talking about pai

Bug#629527: apt: should warn (or emit an error) if symbolic and code-names mixed in sources.list

2011-06-07 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:46, Matthew Vernon wrote: > For most users, most of the time, mixing symbolic (stable, unstable) and > code-names (lenny, squeeze) in sources.list is a mistake, and will lead > to trouble. In which way? You are talking about pain, but not which one… Beside that it will

Bug#629527: apt: should warn (or emit an error) if symbolic and code-names mixed in sources.list

2011-06-07 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: apt Version: 0.8.10.3 Severity: wishlist Hi, For most users, most of the time, mixing symbolic (stable, unstable) and code-names (lenny, squeeze) in sources.list is a mistake, and will lead to trouble. I've encountered this problem on other peoples' systems a few times now. Clearly, t