Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks like the problems with the quality of gdebi's GUI interfaces > are persisting. There are currently two quite severe bugs open > against the gdebi binary package one of which is clearly RC.
This isn't reflected through the bug status, it seems. I see #493352,
which you downgraded - what's the other bug you are talking about?
> gdebi's command line feature is important for my automated package
> testing system, autopkgtest, which I have just been able to get going
> again running on testing at home precisely because gdebi is back in
> testing. So I am keen to keep the gdebi command line tool (in the
> gdebi-core binary package) in lenny.
> At some point it will be necessary to bail on the gui functionality.
Is there no reasonably non-invasive way to fix it? People seem to love
GUI interfaces for trashing their system.
> Is there a problem with having the sources to gdebi in lenny produce
> the non-working gdebi binary package, which should not be in lenny if
> it continues to be useless ?
If the GUI isn't usable and not fixable, you should do another upload
disabling the GUI.
Marc
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