apt-listbugs removed from main packages

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Sat Jun 13 14:09:55 UTC 2009


Tim Webster wrote:
> I have major beef with ubuntu,
> I rely on apt-listbugs for my testing of upcoming pre-release. It
> seams ubuntu has removed apt-listbugs from the main package list. This
> makes so I can NOT safely install pre-releases. Upgrading ubuntu
> severs is always a dicey afair for me. I NEVER upgrade ubuntu as one
> shot upgrade. It is risk I simply can not take on servers.
>
> NO separately monitoring launchpad bug list is not an acceptable
> alternative, to apt-listbugs.
>
> I need tool which will monitor bugs at install time like apt-listbugs
> does or  I can not install pre-releases.
>   

Hit the ubuntu-devel-discuss list. If you want to get any proper 
attention, it might be over there. Or maybe the sounder list.

Or you could go back to Debian. There is a new stable just a month or 
two ago.




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