As usual I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but anyway....
The last couple of months and maybe longer, there have been very lot of topics in "Upgrade Warnings". Maybe sid and sid with multiarch is more "unstable" than before or is there to much dialogs about small things that is not really upgrade-warnings?
As I'm used to and as it has been for a long time you shall not do a d-u (or be very careful) if there is a real upgrade warning not solved, but now there are new "warnings" every day and most of them will never be marked "solved". In my opinion it has become some sort of decrease of the value in the "Upgrade Warnings"
It's not really working to follow all the discussions in "Upgrade Warnings" for everybody and I don't even understand a lot of them. So what I do now is skipping the "Upgrade Warnings" and do a d-u -f and if apt don't complain I do the d-u, if apt complains I try to see if there is some topic in "Upgrade Warnings" that looks like my problem, often it's not, then I just wait for some hours or days until apt don't complain any more.
To much warnings will make warnings less important..............
Maybe there should be a "Developer Upgrade Warning" or similar, where important things like "Now xxxx is broken, don't upgrade until this is solved" will be written, and this will be marked solved when it is solved?
It would be interesting to see if there is someone else who has an opinion about this?
Not everyone here runs the same applications, so that said, a warning not posted may not mess your system for a few hours/days/etc... but messes another persons, because the app uses a dependency that wants to be removed, because someone posted about it, it can be avoided.
Something that is a "decrease of the value" to you, can tremendously be of incredible value to someone else.
Not everyone here runs siduction, a lot of people run sid, testing, and even experimental, I know people from other debian based distros that come here just for the warnings page and/or other information.
I do post warnings for multiarch that effects my system in general, why ?, chances are someone else uses wine, steam, mythtv, etc ... and can break/dependency problem/libs for both 32/64/ etc .. a system, while someone else without multiarch has no problems.
The way I look at it is every little bit helps, now, if you frequent this board a lot, you read the warnings, fracked your system, shit happens, your problem full stop.
What if the warnings not there, someone fracks the system, who gets the blame ? hmm, things get interesting
I say the user for not reading what apt says, but, others will disagree
I will probably be the only one that disagrees with this thread, but, thats what opinions are for and thats my 2¢