On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 11:59 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote: > I'm not so sure about this. We disable apport by default in stable > releases anyway, and if you enable it, and also enable -proposed, then > presumably you want it.
Not necessarily. My use case is that I may have a particular bug that is affecting me in a particular application. So you guys fix the bug and drop the updated package into proposed. The entire purpose of it being in proposed is for some adventurous users who are being affected by the bug to try it out and see if it a) fixes the bug and b) does not cause any other problems. So I am willing to be such a guinea pig, but only for the application that is causing me problems. I'm not willing to be a guinea pig for the entirety of proposed. Thusly, I cherry pick out of proposed only the thing that are relevant to me. > In other words, if an apt-get dist-upgrade would > install it, then apport should also consider it, i. e. it shouldn't try > to reinvent/reinterpret apt pinning. Well, maybe it's pinning or maybe it's just (non-)selection. I don't really care what the underlying mechanism is. > If you don't want -proposed to > install by default and you pin it down, apport shouldn't complain > either. So looking at this from another angle, if I pin down -proposed, will I still be shown the proposed selections in update-manager? Because if I will, (and even better if they are unchecked by default because of the pinning) and if I can override the -proposed pinning by selecting something from -proposed in update-manager then that should satisfy my use case. > Please let me know if you disagree heavily. Well, I'm not going to disagree "heavily". I've outlined my use case. If you think it's too much of a corner case, then I can understand you not fixing this bug. TBH, I don't use apport anymore anyway, because of the (very long standing) inability for it to use a proxy server. Funny, as I write this I am upgrading to Jaunty, where apport would/will probably be useful to both you and I in making jaunty all that much better when it finally releases (hopefully it's a sight better than Intrepid was). -- should not consider "proposed" repositories when checking package versions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270922 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
