-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/06/07 14:37, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-06 08:16:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > >> Or maybe you now need to file a bug saying that "it" returns 0 even >> in a failure condition. > > I suggested that as a simple workaround. The maintainer doesn't want > to change it because some users (running unstable) don't know how to > disable a package (it may be needed to disable apt-listchanges > temporarily to fix things). That's quite surprising for users who > run unstable... Of course, this may need more work from the user, > but with less risk to break the system. > > But there could be better solutions such as using a wrapper, as > I suggested first in my bug report: > > When apt-listchanges cannot run (e.g. because of bug 435674), the
The last time that happened to me (6-8 months ago), I dropped apt-listchanges. Reinstalled it a few weeks later. > user misses all the changelog information (which may contain critical > information, such as some NEWS announcements). So (in particular Excellent. > because breakage due to python occurs too frequently), it is important I still don't have any evidence that python breaks frequently. > that apt-listchanges runs in a wrapper with few dependencies (e.g. > only the libc) so that it can warn the user if the changelog/news > information cannot be displayed and let the user abort the > installation. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGt4DWS9HxQb37XmcRAuigAKCvL12MddPq2lRhYsAmOwx03WP5lwCePmpu k1bVOxXz6apD7MP9/d21hzU= =bcZ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
