Re: Two packages form Ubuntu 8.04 (amd64)

2009-08-04 Thread Siegfried-Angel
Hi, Thanks for your interest in contributing to Ubuntu. 2009/8/3 Jean-Christophe Cazenave : > glimpse: http://webglimpse.net , a tool for indexing text files in a tree of > directories http://revu.ubuntuwire.com is the place for new packages. > bash-4.0: my objective was to use associative arra

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread C de-Avillez
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 19:49 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > I've found a bug (or maybe it's a feature request) in apt (or maybe it's > in software-properties-gtk). I'd like to get people's opinions about > where this is best reported, and what the report should say. > > When you add a repository

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-08-01 19:49:33 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > When you add a repository to your computer, then remove that repository, > it's not obvious how to downgrade packages that are no longer available. Downgrades are not supported, while in practise they work in most cases. Offering such a downgra

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Sayers
You make a good point about breakage when packages are downgraded. But it seems a little disingenuous for us to bend over backwards to make unsupported upgrades possible (adding a "software sources" menu item, putting PPAs in Launchpad, creating /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and so on), then for us

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread C de-Avillez
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 17:56 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > On 2009-08-01 19:49:33 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > When you add a repository to your computer, then remove that repository, > > it's not obvious how to downgrade packages that are no longer available. > > Downgrades are not supported,