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apt-listbugs: Lists critical bugs
Posted by kaerast on Tue 27 Mar 2007 at 15:44
I submitted the following entry to the Debian Package of The Day site.
apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. It is designed to be run automatically by aptitude during installations and upgrades and if it detects any critical bugs will stop to ask the user what to do:
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of tetex-doc (-> 3.0.dfsg.3-5) <pending>
#345604 - contains non-free documentation
serious bugs of tetex-base (-> 3.0.dfsg.3-5) <pending>
#368968 - tetex-base: License violation in csplain
Summary:
tetex-doc(1 bug), tetex-base(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
It then allows users to find out more about the specific bugs listed. By answering w, a web-browser is launched offering links to the bug tracking system for each bug.
By answering with a bug number, querybts is run giving details for that particular bug.
After finding out exactly why the packages are listed as having critical bugs, the user can then either decide to continue installation anyway by answering y (the default) or stop immediately by answering n.
apt-listbugs is available in both Debian and Ubuntu. Unfortunately though the server used by this package to retrieve the bug reports has been down the past couple of days.
apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. It is designed to be run automatically by aptitude during installations and upgrades and if it detects any critical bugs will stop to ask the user what to do:
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of tetex-doc (-> 3.0.dfsg.3-5) <pending>
#345604 - contains non-free documentation
serious bugs of tetex-base (-> 3.0.dfsg.3-5) <pending>
#368968 - tetex-base: License violation in csplain
Summary:
tetex-doc(1 bug), tetex-base(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
It then allows users to find out more about the specific bugs listed. By answering w, a web-browser is launched offering links to the bug tracking system for each bug.
By answering with a bug number, querybts is run giving details for that particular bug.
After finding out exactly why the packages are listed as having critical bugs, the user can then either decide to continue installation anyway by answering y (the default) or stop immediately by answering n.
apt-listbugs is available in both Debian and Ubuntu. Unfortunately though the server used by this package to retrieve the bug reports has been down the past couple of days.