I'm using Debian Testing since quite some times. After several trouble and crash due to hazardous upgrade, and following advice of some peoples here, I installed apt-listbugs.
It's good, because when you make an upgrade of your system, it display know bugs for packages it will install. But I must say that I'm a little bit confused about the message and what to do !
Today, I tried to upgrade my system (apt-get dist-upgrade) and this is the message I have :
What I'm supposed to do now ?59 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/95.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 127 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
grave bugs of udev (166-1 -> 167-1) <marked as done in some version>
#621036 - udev should not assume that /run works just because it exists (Fixed: udev/167-2)
grave bugs of nfs-common (1:1.2.2-5 -> 1:1.2.3-2) <unfixed>
#619877 - rpc.mountd: svc_tli_create: could not bind to requested address
Summary:
nfs-common(1 bug), udev(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
If I press "?" to have more information, the message is
If I press "n", the installation is stopped ... and nothing is installed even packages without bug !y - continue the apt installation, but do not make the bugs ignored.
a - continue the apt installation and make all the above bugs ignored.
n - stop the apt installation.
<num> - query the specified bug number (requires reportbug).
#<num> - same as <num>
r - redisplay bug lists.
p <pkg..> - make pkgs pinned: need to restart apt to enable.
p - make all the above pkgs pinned: need to restart.
i <num> - make bug number <num> ignored.
? - print this help.
w - display bug lists in HTML (uses sensible-browser).
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
so questions :
If I press "Y", does it means that all packages will be installed but not those with the bug (this is what I want at the end)
If I press "p", the package will be "pinned" but I have some confusion about this term :
As far as I understood, it means that my current version of the buggy package will be kept, but what's happen if a new version without bug appear ?
I have searched on Google and read the man page, but didn't found clear answers to my questions
Thanks in advance for your help
ericc