Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Dom: It is slightly confusing that reportbug seems to take into account updates that haven't yet filtered through to the live systems. OK. I have added the situation to an existing close to this problem bug: #563804 . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-21 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Bob: Some maintainers will keep bugs open and tag them with the release the bug appears in. (e.g. Tagged squeeze.) But that is all manual effort on the part of the maintainers. So although some do this it isn't the default behavior provided by the Debian

apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. I thought to file a bug report against cups on my wheezy system whereas I has found w/ the reportbug utility that I do not use the latest version of the package: $ apt-cache policy cups Installed: 1.5.0-5 Candidate: 1.5.0-5 Version table: *** 1.5.0-5 0 100

Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-20 Thread Dom
On 20/09/11 10:05, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I thought to file a bug report against cups on my wheezy system whereas I has found w/ the reportbug utility that I do not use the latest version of the package: $ apt-cache policy cups Installed: 1.5.0-5 Candidate: 1.5.0-5

Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Dom: Hmm... where do you get that the latest version is 1.5.0-6? $ reportbug Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. cups *** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts.

Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-20 Thread Dom
On 20/09/11 14:00, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Dom: Hmm... where do you get that the latest version is 1.5.0-6? $ reportbug Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. cups *** Welcome to

Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Dom wrote: It is slightly confusing that reportbug seems to take into account updates that haven't yet filtered through to the live systems. It is one of the things I find annoying. This is default Debian BTS behavior and not really reportbug specifically. Debian has a Stable release but all

Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-09-20 21:30 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Dom wrote: It is slightly confusing that reportbug seems to take into account updates that haven't yet filtered through to the live systems. It is one of the things I find annoying. This is default Debian BTS behavior and not really reportbug

Re: apt-utility and repos.

2011-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Sven Joachim wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: It is one of the things I find annoying. This is default Debian BTS behavior and not really reportbug specifically. Debian has a Stable release but all bugs are triaged against Unstable. As soon as a package is uploaded to Unstable that closes a