[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1033357: Bug#1033357: aptitude: TUI does not display all error messages

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2023-03-23 19:23:58 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Ran into this today, too. I think we had this already when bullseye
> switched from testing to stable or so and I think there's a bug report
> for this, too, already. Will search later for that one.

I don't remember about this one, but there was one (still open)
for stretch to buster:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931619

> Interestingly compared to your last bug repoirt this time I think the
> severity is higher, as this is an error which doesn't let you to
> properly continue without proper explanation.

The difference is that at least, one has here an error message, so
that one can investigate and fix the issue; and despite this error,
one can still upgrade everything except experimental, which is the
only one affected by the error. For the other bug report, aptitude
didn't report anything, so that it didn't leave the chance for the
user to find and fix the issue, which is much more problematic
(note that I became aware of the issue only by chance, due to some
random discussion in a Debian mailing-list); moreover, it involved
firmware upgrades, which, AFAIK, often have security fixes.

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