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The Debian Package apt-listbugs
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'apt-listbugs' is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian
Bug Tracking System and lists them. Especially, it is intended to
be invoked before each upgrade by apt in order to check whether
the upgrade is safe.
Most of Debian developers use the unstable version of Debian
and some users also use it because the version is the latest
snapshot which includes many features and new packages.
'apt' is a great convenient tool to follow your system to the latest
version easily. On the other hand, the feature also makes your system
break easily. If a package is broken and uploaded to the Debian unstable,
the package will be installed on many Debian system soon.
From a debian developer's point of view, many bug reports are reported
for only one bug. Unfortunately, these bugs are usually reported to several
packages.
You can install it easily by apt. Normaly, you don't need to customize.
But I strongly suggest you to use proxy server in order to reduce
the accesses to BTS.
Note:
* Currently, 'apt-listbugs' needs a console for user interaction.
* By default, 'apt-listbugs' retrieves bug reports from the local
cache. In this mode, because it doesn't check whether the cache
is up-to-date, the reports may be old reports. The cache will be
automatically removed in 1 hour (by default). If you want
to change the timer, put the -t option to apt-listbugs.
Use -f option to retrieve latest reports forcibly.
* 'apt-listbugs' has a very simple interactive viewer. It uses
querybts program as a backend. To enable this feature, you need
to install 'reportbug' package. In addition, you can make
broken packages pinned in order not to upgrade them automatically
by apt-get upgrade. Unforunately, this setteing isn't enabled soon.
You need to restart apt to enable the status.
These pins will be removed when the package has no longer critical
bugs by cron.daily.
If you install www-broswer, you can view bug lists in html.
sensible-broswer in debianutils (>= 2.0) also available.
* This version of 'apt-listbugs' accesses to misato.debian.gr.jp
to retrieve bugs to reduce many accesses to bugs.debian.org.
* You can use http_proxy environment variable. Currently, no
http authorization supported.
Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org>, Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:59:03 +0900
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