On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 01:22:48PM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote: > >Perhaps release-notes should suggest to run dpkg --verify after a >dist-upgrade anyway - i assume it doesnt hurt to do so?
That's a really good suggestion, yes! I don't know why nobody hasn't thought of this before. :-) >Happy to suggest and edit text for release notes: i would want to know: > >- how do i know if the system is fine? > > i was assuming that it would output nothing if everything is fine, > but that seems to be far from the case. I get huge amounts of output > that is very hard to interpret, i assume it's showing a 'c' for every > single changed conffile, and 'missing' where i deleted conffiles. > But why are some lines contain question marks? we would need a lot > of explanation here to make this useful for users (unfortunately, the > dpkg man page is very confusing about this option, and doesnt have > any of this, as far as i can understand) > >- if something went wrong: > a) how do i know? would there be an obvious error message? do i need to > check the exit status? > b) what would i do?: reinstall some packages? reinstall the whole system? > >(maybe this should be in a bug against release-notes) Maybe a wrapper script to just report likely problems would be a good plan. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.
