[Reportbug-maint] Bug#548046: --ignore-permissions breaks reportbug when not available

[Sandro Tosi]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 15:39, Michal Suchanek
<michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz> wrote:
> On 09/24/2009 01:30 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 13:23, Michal Suchanek
>> <michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/24/2009 09:17 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No. Check the package relationships with other packages, install the
>>>> relevant packages.
>>>>
>>> No, that's the packager's and apt's job.
>>
>> I did mine: if you want to complain, go and knock on apt door
>
> Suggests are not automatically installed. They need not, that's how they are
> defined.
> No problem with apt here.

neitehr with reportbug.

>>> Since earlier version worked with my debsums and current does not this is
>>> certainly a regression.
>>
>> could you please turn on your brain? the version required is clearly
>> stated in reportbug suggests, now if you still want to use an older
>> version, that's ONLY YOUR FAULT. do YOU understand it or it's too
>> difficult?
>
> I'm very well aware of exact cause of the problem.

it doesn't seem so.

> I do not want to check
> suggests of every package I install on every machine, and I should not need
> to for well behaving packages.

again: YOU don't want to fix YOUR problem.

> Stop shouting, please.

I'll do when you'll stop bothering with false claims.

>>> debsums has a --version option so you can use its output and check it in
>>> your scripts or devise some other means.
>>
>> in no fscking way! should I support older versions? no. should I
>> support new versions and update the relevant information suggests?
>> yes. Did I do the last one? yes.
>>
>
> When new features are added it is nice to do so in a way that does not break
> existing features where reasonably possible.

dlin dlon: please weak up. I added a feature that depends on a new
version of a package, and I set the new version in suggests. my work
is done.

> I think adding a version check is reasonably possible.

NO WAY.

> You clearly don't want to do so but that does not make the issue with this
> package disappear.

Ok, yeah, sure, keep going on this way. You know what? I'll ignore you
from now on. Invest your time in something else (fishing for example?)
and stop wasting my time fighting your clueless mind.

GO AWAY,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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