On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Daniel Nicoletti wrote: [...] > So I decided to take a look at apt-listbugs source code > and found APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND that when set > to "none" quits it,
Yes, that's documented in the man page of apt-listbugs(1): [...] | ยท APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND If this variable is set to "none" | apt-listbugs will not execute at all, this might be useful if | you would like to script the use of a program that calls | apt-listbugs. [...] > so I did it and it worked. > So bug closed.. :D What do you mean by "it worked"? I suppose that setting that environment variable to "none" made apt-listbugs exit (successfully) as soon as started (this is what the documentation says, and apt-listbugs actually behaves like that on my boxes). If this is the case, then you have just prevented apt-listbugs from being useful in its primary area of application, namely, checking RC bugs during package upgrades/installations... I do not think that this "closes" the bug! On the contrary: it's a way to *silently* prevent apt-listbugs from running! On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:18:00 +0000 Matthias Klumpp wrote: [...] > * Set env var in aptcc to disable apt-listbugs (Closes: #628835) [...] I do not think this is the right fix for bug #628835: setting APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND to "none" in aptcc *silently* disables apt-listbugs when packagekit is used to upgrade or install packages. This means that the user, who installed apt-listbugs as a partial safety measure against RC bugs (that may be introduced into his/her system by the upgrade or installation of some packages), is not getting any protection at all, when using packagekit! What is worse, he/she may be completely *unaware* of this lack of protection against RC bugs: he/she may think that apt-listbugs is working fine with packagekit and that it just does not find any RC bugs in the packages being upgraded/installed. (A) I think that the aptcc backend for packagekit should be modified so that it can work well with apt-listbugs (in the meanwhile, I can see whether it is possible to implement a debconf frontend in apt-listbugs: see bug #628996 and, as I said there, any help would be appreciated). (B) Until (A) is properly done, I think that packagekit should conflict with apt-listbugs. (C) Otherwise, if you want to keep this "workaround" that silently disables apt-listbugs, you should document it with a *huge* warning to inform users that they won't get any protection from RC bugs when using packagekit, despite having apt-listbugs installed. In summary, I think the best solution is (A). Until (A) is implemented, I think that (B) or (C) should be be adopted as a temporary workaround, with (B) to be preferred over (C), in my humble opinion. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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