* Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> [060217, 00:16]: > On 2/4/17, Ennio-Sr <nasr.la...@tin.it> wrote: > > [...] > > Was your email signature attached to wherever this didn't arrive? I > just... I found this in my sp am bucket so maybe that's why it never > arrived where you sent. Maybe the signature is triggering something? I > [...] > Yes, it was, and it's 'pure text', no evil in it ;) Perhaps the addresses I used (shown in the 'apt-cache show' of the two pkgs, are reserved to developers. Theu were rejected with '550 Unroutable address'. > > > [...]
> You said that you found what you needed in /var/cache/apt/archives? > The impression I got was that this is where deletions were going to be > made. Is it that you happened to have an older archive dotDeb that is > being left alone because it's pre this deletion thing? > Yes, the older version 1.4.4-1 had been preserved, whereas the new one, 1.6.0-1 had vanished. > Where are you seeing packages deleted from? No, I modified the default behaviour creating the file '01Keep-debs' in '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d' as suggested by the warning during the upgrade. > [...] > > Upon reading that something IMPORTANT was going to start being quietly > deleted as a default, my reaction was something along the lines of... > > An itty-bitty tiny little freakout for a second. > > And pretty much for the kind of reason it sounds like you're saying here. > Well, we don't know the underlying reason of this choice... > The more I think back on it, I specifically monitored dotDeb archive > file deletions for a few days after that message appeared, but I never > saw anything change. I heve no clue to this. > [...] > specifically k/t the fear of being cut off if I don't have the right What does 'k/t' mean? (Sorry, I'm not English mother tongue!) > > Just thinking out loud. I really don't have any other feedback... > except maybe... > > *ACK!!!!!!!!!* :D > I hope that is not for me! > Cindy :) Regards, Ennio -- [Perche' usare Win$ozz (dico io) se ..."anche uno sciocco sa farlo. \\?// Fa' qualche cosa di cui non sei capace!" (diceva Henry Miller) ] (°|°) [Why use Win$ozz (I say) if ... "even a fool can do that. )=( Do something you aren't good at!" (as Henry Miller used to say) ]