Getting package build dependencies

2006-10-25 Thread Ross Boylan
of heavy weight). Thanks. Ross Boylan cc's appreciated. P.S. apt-get build-dep has always made me a bit uncomfortable, since I presume it goes by the installed binary package. If you want to build some other version (e.g., system is testing but you want to build unstable) the dependencie

Bug#62878: Screen display problems with terminals.

2003-06-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:43:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Hello, > > It seems sthat changing the font have solved the problem > so we can close this bug report ? > > Cheers, I am very belatedly catching up with this question. It doesn't seem to me the bug should be closed. It appears th

Re: Which packages will hold up the release?

2003-10-10 Thread Ross Boylan
There are some mathematical tools that might be useful in working with some of these issues (I know them from models of social networks). One can represent relations between packages as a matrix D. The rows and columns refer to packages, and the cell is 1 if a relation exists, otherwise 0. For e