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1 -- Real Problems
2 #24000: Bug in apt Version: 0.0.17-1bo0
3 Summary: Couldn't locate an archive source for a package
4 Status: Require Status file.
5 #26670: apt: apt-get dumps core after checking integrity
6 Summary: Some terminal environments cause APT to crash
7 Win95 telnet and emacs term-in-a-buffer are two at least
8 Status: I have no idea why.
9 #23984: apt: support for "no_proxy" would be nice
10 Status: Planed to be integrated into the new methods via the configuration
11 file
12 #24685: HTTP Proxy cache refresh
13 Summary: Some caches hold onto the package index file for too long
14 Status: It may be possible to insert the proper header to disable
15 caching but I can't think how to do this while allowing
16 the cache to return cached objects - in effect it would
17 completely disable the cache which may not be desired.
18 #24717: apt dies early if one postinst/preinst dies
19 Status: Requires dpkg modifications
20 #25001: apt: cleaned out archive even though not all files were installed
21 Status: Apparently in some cases APT can return a success code even
22 though it failed. I'm paying very close attention to this in
23 0.3.x. Not to mention that the clean behavior will be
24 configurable..
25 #25021: apt: Need some control over multiple connections
26 Status: Probable that 0.3.x will have support for configuing some
27 parameters
28 #22892: Apt improvements
29 #28184: apt could be smarted regarding mirrors
30 Summary: Make use of redundant sources
31 Status: 0.3.0 will likely do this, already the information for it is stored.
32 #24799: Some suggestions for the apt method in dselect
33 Summary: Wants to be able to specifiy -d from dselect
34 Status: Likely a APT_OPTIONS enviornment variable will be created, -d can
35 be put there.
36 There is already an APT_CONFIG in 0.3, APT_OPTIONS may also
37 appear..
38 #25104: APT should retry failed downloads
39 Summary: FTP method has problems with busy servers
40 Status: The 0.3.0 ftp method should probably use the configuration mechanism
41 to control this desired behavoir.
42 #25176: Problem with FTP/firewall
43 #25458: Problem with FTP/firewall
44 Summary: FTP method has no controls for firewalls
45 Status: The 0.3.0 ftp method should probably use the configuration mechanism
46 to control this desired behavoir.
47 #28373: apt package is missing information on ftp.conf
48 Summary: The man pages have references to several non-existent items,
49 ftp.conf is only one of them.
50 Status: Fix the man pages. This certainly will be done in 0.3.0
51 #28391: apt-get install without upgrading
52 Summary: Make install leave the package in the keep state if it is already
53 installed
54 Status: Will be implemented in 0.3.0
55
56 -- Fixed but unclosed things
57 #25026: apt: Why do you list the packages you're _not_ doing anything to instead of the ones you are?
58 #22507: apt: apt-get - listing packages to be upgraded (wishlist)
59 Summary: Feature request
60 Status: Fixed in 0.3.0 via the -u option
61 #21113: [Apt] In dselect, update dies and exits if the packages file is not found.
62 Status: Fixed in 0.3.0
63 #22675: APT does not honor the --admin-dir option
64 #22836: Disk/Zip-Method for apt?
65 Summary: APT does not provide a way to download packages onto a
66 removable media for another computer
67 Status: 0.3.0 has substantially better support for this to the point
68 that it is doable by using a seperate configuration file and
69 the -c option
70 #27601: srange errors from dselect
71 Summary: Couldn't locate an archive source
72 Status: Require status file
73 Believed to be fixed in 0.1.9, was not reproducable w/ given
74 status file
75 #27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library
76 Status: New versions of APT in slink have been compiled with libstdc++2.9
77
78 -- Silly things
79 #26592: apt: Problems with ftpd in SunOS 5.6
80 Summary: SunOS ftpd does not support the SIZE command
81 Status: Probably not worth fixing
82 #20723: Apt suggestion
83 Summary: Package Grouping Mechanism
84 Status: Who knows
85 #22550: apt-get upgrade could configure packages earlier
86 Status: Who knows
87 #23934: apt-get source <package>
88 #27190: apt: installing source packages (wishlist)
89 Status: Impossible to do without an index file for all source archives.
90 #26019: apt may report wrong line speed
91 #26433: apt: claims to fetch things it doesn't actually fetch (wishlist)
92 #28778: apt: apt's fetched message is wrong for update of packages files
93 Summary: APT includes the fetch time from the local cache in its
94 calculations
95 Status: Probably will be fixed with new acquire code
96 #26663: rsync file access
97 Status: Unlikely, rsync does not provide the necessary support to be
98 a terribly good method. I do not intend any 'split mode'
99 support (ie a way to get Package files via rsync and .debs
100 via http)
101 #22551: apt: wish: use dist X iff pkg does not exist in dist Y
102 #27100: apt: Better support for project/experimental
103 Status: GUI Feature - Version selection and pinning
104 #25019: apt: Confusing progress report
105 Summary: Gripes about the progress meter
106 Status: I do not intend to implement very many of these ideas in apt-get.
107 The GUI will naturally be better
108 #25022: apt: Lack of feedback on date checking
109 Summary: Wants to know what package files were not updated
110 Status: There is no place for this in the current apt-get design,
111 probably won't make the GUI either.
112 #28172: HTTP Proxy cache refresh should be forced for corrupted packages
113 Summary: Some problem resulted in a corrupted package
114 Status: I belive this reflects a deeper problem and the suggested solution
115 is only a band-aide patch. I intend to close this bug when #24685
116 is fixed with a configuration directive.
117 #27646: Apt: dpkg --merge-avail
118 Summary: Suggestion to call merge avail after each update operation
119 Status: Unlikely. The dpkg --print-avail functions should be obsoleted
120 by the apt-query program which should be written.