Bug#261854: xlibs: some softlinks not made correctly, installer fails to upgrade

2004-08-21 Thread John D. Hendrickson
Branden Robinson wrote: I'm afraid I do not understand your report. Sorry about that! It seems we don't read things the same way. No problem. script fix_X is less ambiguous. The NEED for running the fix_X script is that xlib's preinst script REFUSES to continue installation until fix_X i

Bug#261854: xlibs: some softlinks not made correctly, installer fails to upgrade

2004-08-13 Thread Branden Robinson
I'm afraid I do not understand your report. On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 12:01:38PM -0400, John D. Hendrickson wrote: > Package: xlibs > Version: 4.1.0-16 > Severity: important On what grounds do you justify this severity? > Two things. One, xlibs did not install files correctly. "Not correct" is a

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2004-08-04 Thread John D. Hendrickson
I agreed to Daniel that it was something that happend on my machineS during dist-upgrade. This in't reproducible installing X related libs in any order (forward or back). To get to how libXft became a "file not found", cause even "vi" to not work holding X out of the picture, I would have to

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2004-08-03 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:05:39AM -0400, John D. Hendrickson wrote: > sorry if this is a double reply (this time, reply-all) > > As said in first reply, I disagree. > > NOTE: libXft2 is not some Xft replacement. It is written by Keith > Packard and installed to /usr/X11R6/lib/ by default: not

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2004-08-03 Thread John D. Hendrickson
007U9-00; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:26:42 -0700 Received: by tycho.fooishbar.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ADB28E9C036; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:26:42 +1000 From: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John D. Hendrickson" <[EMAIL PRO

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2004-08-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:11:39AM -0400, John D. Hendrickson wrote: > I do not appreciate being called completely bogues. I said the bug was completely bogus, not you. -- Daniel Stone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian: the universal operating system

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2004-08-02 Thread John D. Hendrickson
ADB28E9C036; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:26:42 +1000 From: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John D. Hendrickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#261854: xlibs: some softlinks not made correctly, installer fails t

Bug#261854: xlibs: some softlinks not made correctly, installer fails to upgrade

2004-07-28 Thread John D. Hendrickson
Package: xlibs Version: 4.1.0-16 Severity: important -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux link 2.4.20-mm #1 Tue Feb 24 17:47:00 EST 2004 i586 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xlibs depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU