-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 12:36, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:17:36AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: >> Icedove/testing appears to be seriously broken. There was a post about >> downgrading to icedove/stable. However, I got a segfault when I tried that. >> I would suggest that certain core applications have more rigorous >> requirements placed on them before the get into testing. I know that there >> are all kinds of warnings, but >> the (much) longer intervals between stable releases means many rely on >> testing for hardware compatibility. > > yours is at least the second icedove related mail today. Have you > reported a bug? That is the purpose of testing -- to highlight bugs so > they can be fixed. > > It is certainly not an *obligation* of those running testing to report > bugs, but if they don't then the package will end up broken in the > next stable. This, of course, is supposed to happen in unstable as > well, to keep the number of bugs in testing down, but obviously no one > running unstable has run in to this problem in time to keep the bug > from propogating into testing.
I just upgraded to 2.0.0-3 and it failed miserably, with a blank screen. Fortunately, apt-listbugs mentioned that this is a known grave bug. So I purged it and dpkg installed v1.5.0.10.dfsg1-3 which I'm now writing this from. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGU089S9HxQb37XmcRApg6AKDBJOuat741KAWHQ1ID96APhlRWwwCeLGCo HAzkLj2uh4BxIjDW0UiEid0= =Wji+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
