* wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free
programs.
(disregarding any other reasons your package might not be suitable for the
archive)
Daniel
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dummy upgrade
package, but other *-ssl packages (eg, fetchmail-ssl) were just dropped. It
seems to me that any crypto-enhanced package that was moved to main and
renamed should have a dummy upgrade package in sarge.
Daniel
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common doesn't provide the version it needs), but
unless some other part of the system depends on fetchmail, you won't end up
with fetchmail installed.
Daniel
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gets
> > better in time. Debian will continue to practice freedom.
>
> I think this is mostly correct.
So, do you think DeCSS should be included in main? Why or why not?
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whole
lot faster" and it's one of my pet peeves. :)
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to select exim4 for
installation, rather than grabbing a random provider of m-t-a.
The same goes for Recommends, as those are also supposed to be installed
automatically (although most frontends seem to ignore them).
Daniel
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mula be get dselect Desktop to actually install
> Gnome on an Ultrasparc when there is a chain of co/required
> dependencies failures?
I don't understand what this has to do with Gnome or anything I said.
Daniel
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What will they do if the package tools only
support Latin-1?
-> Someone wants to use the Debian packaging tools to create a new
distribution for use in China. Again, what will they do if the package tools
only support Latin-1?
Daniel
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aking
iso-8859-1 as input and producing it as output should be no problem.
Daniel
[0] According to the libc manual, only 16 bits have been assigned, but GNU
systems use 32-bit encoding internally if the libc transcoding functions are
used.
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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:17 am, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> complex replacement string class
Admittedly, "complex" might (hypothetically) be a bit of an exaggeration.
:P
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terminal
speaks iso-8859-1, aptitude will handle it just fine without any changes)
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e "g" and resolve the dependencies? (Kind of same as in
> dselect)
If you want to find alternatives for a virtual package, you can use 'd' and
'r' to navigate the dependency lists. It's not as convenient as dselect, but
it works.
Daniel
On Friday 10 December 2004 04:23 pm, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:22:08PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > If you want to find alternatives for a virtual package, you can use 'd'
> > and 'r' to navigate the dependency lists. It's
another package depending
> on it is installed or a decision is made).
It seems like "Unknown" would just be a synonym for "No", right? Presumably
with a way to search for unknown packages (I think ~U isn't taken yet).
Daniel
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l is to maintain the
current behavior, but to set a different flag on packages that were
conservatively assumed to be manually installed, so they can be switched
later to automatic handling if desired. Sounds useful.
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used isn't
disjoint to the other sets of packages that aptitude displays, which could
perhaps lead to some awkward situations. (what if a package is both
upgradable and possibly unused? Which category is it listed in, or is it
listed in both?)
Daniel
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ompletely. I would recommend that transitional period for other positions
> as well.)
Why does he need to be replaced at all? I think Debian is better off with
small teams working key positions than single people.
Daniel
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rs on Debian systems (barring a sudden change in how we release)
for years and years to come.
Daniel
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On Friday 31 December 2021 08:38 am, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
I call dibs on his time machine ;-)
Daniel
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|
uot;block-by-block" would mean a whole lot of totally pointless extra work
in order to make the program less robust (there's no direct way to delete the
first block of a file, so you'd have to either copy from the back or shift
the whole file back a block at a time an
;s fast.
>
> I wouldn't mind that dh_install accepted an option to behave like that.
See bug #296917.
Daniel
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On Saturday 05 March 2005 06:48 pm, Bill Allombert wrote:
> For that purpose, I have made an experimental popularity-contest package
> that use both smtp and http. Please find it here:
Have you considered uploading it to experimental?
Daniel
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ental, so
people who want it can just fetch it from there.
Daniel
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because r-gnome requires the previous version -- you can deal with that
situation by adding a Conflicts: r-gnome to r-base. This gives you the same
situation as before, but without a bogus empty package and with an up-front
warning to the user that r-gnome is going a
On Monday 14 March 2005 07:49 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Sure. Who's doing that on anything but i386/amd64/powerpc?
Yes, I'm sure all those s390 users are running it on a machine in their
basements... ;-)
Daniel
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:25:01PM +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> we just received a bug report that is caused by a buggy prerm script
> in the package in sarge (it fails because it doesn't handle read-only
> /usr/local properly). Is there any way to fix this, except
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:26:34PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:13:48PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> >> Hello Debian developers,
> >>
> >> When doing research about circular-deps
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Will all the tools resolving the dependencies be fine with a dependency
> > on a virtual package without one an a real package ? (like f
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:25:49PM +0100, Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> >-default sound setup
>
> Sound is symptomatic of a much larger class of problems, namely that
> there is no system service that forwards resources other than display
> and keyboard to the user curre
The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the
Description field to explicitly handle bulleted lists. The extended
syntax allows list items to be treated specially by frontends (for
instance, bullet characters can be replaced with graphics, and the
body of the list item can be
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:38:59PM -0500, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extension to the
> > Description field to explicitly handle
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:49:02PM -0600, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
>
> [Daniel Burrows]
> > (1) The first line begins with N > 2 spaces,
>
> Don't you mean N >= 2?
>
> > (2) The first non-space character of the fir
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:01:52AM +, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The attached text is a first draft of a proposed extensio
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:21:41AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Extensions to the syntax of Description blocks:
> >
> > As mentioned above, all lines beginn
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:51:55AM +0100, Jiří Paleček <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Jiri Palecek wrote:
> >>How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it
> >>prefer to do something that
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 02:34:32PM +0900, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> As stated by the Debian Policy Manual :
>
> "The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required
> for the depending package to provide a significant amount of
> functionality."
>
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:41:25AM +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [0] alert readers will note that the caveat "if the user waits for a
> > sufficient amount of time" has to be a
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:57:22AM +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When you say that normal operation is getting slower, do you mean just
> > the load time or its overall performance? The time
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:25:52PM +0100, Jérôme Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Le vendredi 20 janvier 2006 à 14:17 +, Paul Brossier a écrit :
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:09:28AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > >
> > > [Jérôme Warnier]
> > > > Or even better: a list of a
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:20:25PM +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Actually, in case stockholm gets elected,
>
> Sorry, where's the Wiki page describing codenames for DPL candidates?
Wait, you mean we aren't putting
ilesystem?
Daniel
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t; All we need is another GR. Stop bitching and propose one.
http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004
Of course, the "roll back the changes" was defeated by a 2:1 ratio in that
vote by the winning option...
Daniel
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uch trouble as Manesis
> was, except for the fact that Lemmings is *not* from Konami, and nobody
> ever heard anything from Psygnosis requesting Pingus to be withdrawn. I
> have no idea about Supertux.
And for an example in the other direction, see freecraft and bnetd.
Daniel
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On Sunday 27 March 2005 04:00 am, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> * Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > I just uploaded aptitude 0.2.15.9 to Incoming. Most of the changes
> > in this version are translation updates, but I also included a
> > backport of the apt-secure enhancements that
-all, I think that this is a nice low-cost way of getting proper
bullet support into the frontends. Comments?
Daniel
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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:56 am, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> A line beginning with two or more spaces, followed by a bullet character
> and a space, is considered to be an element of a bulleted list. Every
> succeeding line that begins with N+1 or more spaces, where N is the number
&g
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 11:44 am, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> I know of at least two such languages. Don't include 'o'.
Ok, will do. Or, um, not do.
Daniel
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[non-free?] on the debian install media? This would be a possible
> solution to the problem.
Personally, I always just assumed this is what would happen if/when non-free
firmwares were ejected from main.
Daniel
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ter in my car so I get better
gas milage...
Daniel
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| after a great idea hits you, and just before
I sent
about two patches to fix problems with it before deciding that the design was
fundamentally flawed and there was a better way to do things. (hey, hubris
is one virtue of a programmer, right? :) )
Daniel
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On Monday 11 April 2005 06:39 am, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> 1) Proper English descriptions, rather than tags.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% linda /var/cache/apt/archives/abiword_2.2.7-1_i386.deb
>
> E: abiword; No manual page for binary AbiWord-2.2.
-i.
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work at a nuclear plant/are a member of a neo-Nazi group. So,
should we put software like that into main so that they don't "think the
differences between free and non-free software are pretty small"?
If not, I'm not sure I see what you're trying to say either.
Danie
the voters had been told would result in a further
delay of the Sarge release.
Daniel
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bian
> developers, the whole -003 and -004 mess seems to be a way how to not do
> it.
I don't think that anyone would do things exactly the same way with the
benefit of hindsight.
Daniel
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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 09:56 am, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> We can also extend the description format in backwards-compatible ways.
> So, while a proper markup language would be nice, that doesn't preclude
> fixing the bullet problem, albeit in a slightly hacky way, NOW. Wha
e versions I uploaded and cause them to be removed from
> experimental.
aptitude forked between unstable and experimental in December.
Daniel
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3.1, then 3.1 is what we get.
At least not in the common case. I imagine there would be some
consternation if the release team announced we were entering the freeze for
Debian 2.9 codename "sarge". ;-)
Daniel
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On Friday 06 May 2005 06:04 am, Martin Braure de Calignon wrote:
> Yes, ok for that. But when I want to upgrade a package, it is not really
> logical to use "install", because the package is already installed, no ?
Yes.
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at our sections will
be basically useless for anyone trying to actually find software even if we
do this, does it really make sense to invest a lot of effort in rebalancing
them?
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tly, though, that
could definitely spell trouble.
Daniel
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e). Teach your favorite parser
generator about this, validate all incoming text, and you should be fairly
safe. It's not as complete as the unrestricted form, but IMO it covers most
of what you'd want to use in IMs.
Daniel
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t erroring out and
leaving an operation half-completed.
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On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:37 pm, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:26 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:52 am, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > It's breaking elegance to fix something I'm not convinced is a p
;; either version \\(.+\\), or (at your option)"
nil t)
(progn
(goto-char (match-beginning 1))
(delete-region (point) (match-end 1))
(insert current-gpl-version)))
(setq write-file-hooks (cons 'update-copyright-with-queries write-file-hooks))
== cut here ===
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Darren Benham was heard to say:
> What do you think?
> - Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
>
>
> On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote:
>
> | And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian
> keyring..
>
>
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz was heard to say:
> Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev,
> who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005,
> but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use
> --auto-deconfigur
Sorry to interrupt the flamew^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdiscussion here, but I have a
quick question.
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:01:22PM +, Roland Rosenfeld was heard to say:
> > One again: they are *not* accessible via these symlinks!
>
> They are.
Well, maybe. (see below)
> > This may work someti
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:11:08PM -0400, Bill White was heard to say:
> Is it possible to upgrade from slink to potato using a 56k modem connection?
> If it takes 650Mb to upgrade everything it is not possible. If it is,
> my problems are solved, of course.
>
> Thanks.
If you pay for bandwidt
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:54:32AM +, David Coe was heard to say:
[quoting RMS]
> But in another sense it is not GNU software, because we can't use
> XEmacs in the GNU system: using it would mean paying a price in
> terms of our ability to enforce the GPL. Some of the people who have
>
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 02:16:31PM +1000, Craig Sanders was heard to say:
> > And if the package has a dependency?
> > There are many situations dealing with the package system that can
> > lead to daemons installing without your knowledge. mtools for potato
> > includes floppyd, if someone upgra
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:29:29AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf was heard to say:
> They said that the beta of their linux distro will be
> available for public download by the end of October.
Hm. Do you have any information about the following issues:
-> How big is it? The only spare partition I
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:54:14PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman was heard to say:
> Previously Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > ishtar:~> dpkg --search /usr/bin/nsgmls
> > sp: /usr/bin/nsgmls
^^
> That only means you have it installed. Now try this:
>
> [lightning:~]-10> dpkg --print-avail nsgmls
>
Hello,
I was just poking around on my system and found a script I wrote back when
kernel 2.2 was released. It was an experiment to see if I could easily handle
registration and deregistration of binary formats (with binfmt_misc) -- it
just occured to me that Debian might be interested in it,
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say:
> A wonderfuly horrible hack has occurred to me, by the way: A cron job
> which runs every minute: /bin/sh -c exit || /sbin/rebuild-bin-sh
Hmm. There's a bit of a problem here: aren't cronjobs executed
with /bin/sh? :)
Oops.
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows was heard to say:
> test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc || exit 0
That maybe should be test -d ... (although the above works even on ash)
Daniel
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On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:30:04AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:06:02AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > [ as I understand it, a security 'breach' could only occur with this
> > system if a user had execute permissions but *not* read
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Joey Hess was heard to say:
> It looks like the doom source is now under the GPL.
> (http://www.doomworld.com/). This clears up the previous licencing problems
> that were keeping it out of debian. It will still be fit only for contrib
> for now, since it n
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Brian May was heard to say:
> > Packages such as Wine, Kaffe, dosemu, and perhaps Frotz would drop a file
> >into this directory announcing their support of a binary format. The files
> >wouldn't actually be interpreted unless this init.d script is instal
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Edward Betts was heard to say:
> Could I clarify some stuff please?
>
> Are we proposing that all mime-types have binfmt_misc setup? Does that mean,
> the kernel will be able to `run' any file in mailcap? Is that what we really
> want?
I'm not; I just h
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the
> potato release.
*raises hand*
I've actually done two things -- the machine I'm typing on has been running
unstable since before Slink was f
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:18:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack was heard to say:
> I'm trying to virtualize in.telnetd to access a chrooted virtual server
> (using tcp_wrappers' twist option and Wietse's chrootuid utility).
> Everything works just fine until the in.telnetd from chrooted location is
>
My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato) produced
the following odd output:
Setting up tk8.2 (8.2.0-3) ...
Checking available versions of wish, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
(You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
Leaving wish
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:12:08PM +0200, Staffan Hämälä was heard to say:
> > NO, NO, NO, this is not redhat.com! Do this on a Debian only if you really
> > know what you are doing or you may destroy your system.
>
> As far as I can see there is often not another way to do it.
> Ie., program com
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:30:29PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman was heard to say:
> Previously Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > My system upgrade today (from yesterday's potato to today's potato)
> > produced
> > the following odd output:
>
> What version of dpkg do
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:21:31PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott was heard to say:
> See bug 37252--I believe it is responsible for what you are seeking.
>
> tkstep8.0 registers slave alternatives (under wish) for
> /usr/man/man1/wish8.0.1.gz and /usr/bin/wish8.0 . This is bad because 1)
> tk8.0 does not
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:26:00AM -0500, Daniel Burrows was heard to say:
> > What gets me is that aptitude, apt-get, deselect, and gnome-apt all
> > seem to give slightly different info on which packages
> > are broken, will be deleted, or are on hold. Are the
> > depe
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:03:15PM -0500, Will Barton was heard to say:
> I dont believe that this is a problem with Mozilla itself, because the binary
> tarball of M14 works fine with M13 prefrences. Its only after you install the
> deb that this go crazy.
>
> Has anyone else used both the deb a
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:15:04AM -0600, BugScan reporter was heard to say:
> Package: gnomeicu (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Edward C. Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 58919 gnomeicu causes XServer to grab all the memory.
I think there was a discussion on -devel that concluded that there's some
evi
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:37:11PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog was heard to say:
> Le Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:06:24PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt écrivait:
> > Trouble ahead?
>
> Please run "apt-get install apt" before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt
> don't manage well the perl transition. This will be docu
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 08:32:07PM -0400, Nicolás Lichtmaier was heard to say:
> > > Trouble ahead?
> > Please run "apt-get install apt" before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt
> > don't manage well the perl transition. This will be documented in the
> > Release Notes.
>
> Why don't we make the ne
It seems to me that a better way to do this (in the abstract case :) ) would
be to librarify dpkg -- that is, to make a libdpkg which approximately parallels
libapt. This would also have the effect of solving some annoying quirks in the
apt/dpkg interaction which are caused (if I remember correc
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:40:56AM +0100, Radovan Garabik was heard to say:
> An elegant solution wouldbe to use escape only as a character "escaping" the
> next
> char, i.e. prefix for control chars, and what we know as an escape character
> would be represented as Esc Esc.
>
> But this would pr
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Richard Braakman was heard to say:
[snip]
> 59909 cvs: cvs segfaults when commiting a dir
FWIW, I've never seen this bug.
> Package: rep-gtk (debian/main).
> Maintainer: Mikolaj J. Habryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 58684 rep-gtk_0.8-2(unstable): build er
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:15:42PM -0800, Joey Hess was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > It might not -- most programs (most!) use curses, and very few try to
> > actually
> > catch Escape (due to the historical problems with it). So (a) if curses
> > (an
ore vulnerable? I can toss
it into the TODO queue. [1]
Daniel
[1] not that anything is being dequeued at the moment..*sigh*..
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:36:12PM -0400, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> was heard to say:
> > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:49:27PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote:
> >
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > (especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of
> >downloading changed packages.
by debconf at runtime?
I know that joeyh has been working on a much nicer-looking slang frontend
which doesn't suffer from this problem; maybe we can just ditch dialog
eventually and use that?
Daniel
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This is something I've been curious about since noticing that Lame supports
Vorbis: why would you use Lame to encode a Vorbis file when Vorbis comes with
its own encoder? Am I missing something?
Daniel
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