How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 17:03 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 04:57:39PM +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > Hi Julian
> > 
> > On Mon, 2015-12-21 at 16:13 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > > I also wrote I am thinking about adding some kind of apt revert command
> > > that allows you to revert entries from apt's history.log, which would
> > > allow
> > > you to undo install commands.
> > That will be really a great feature. I was always upset that apt(itude) does
> > not
> > have this feature. I was even thinking about a feature that allows you to
> > recover your system at a certain date based on snapshots.
> > The last time I was missing this is today. I updated ssh and suddenly I
> > could
> > not access anymore my github account due to my key was rejected. I would
> > loved
> > to aptitude revert instead of doing this manually.
> 
> In a lot of cases it won't work though. For example, reverting an
> upgrade is formally unsupported (so you'd need to answer yes to
> some warnings), and in any case, the old versions and packages
> still need to be available in your sources. Actually, anything
> where something other than an install happened (whether remove
> or upgrade) is a bit flaky.
I was more thinking about sid/testing users that stable users. So these people
should be experimented enough to be able to deal with warnings.
Normally one can always access snapshots to recover a given version of any
package so why should one have to have the old packages?
> A better option is to use snapshotting on the file system.
> 

Yes was thinking about putting / in a git repository and playing with
.gitignore, but maybe there are better solutions.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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