malex at tagancha.org a ?crit : > * Le Tigre <scribus at le-tigre.net> [2006-04-13 09:58:56 +0000]: > > >>Thank you Malex, it works fine. >>I'm afraid I did'nt really understand about the "dummy" version: do you >>mean you won't make some repositories for 1.3.4cvs? >>That could be great if we could have in parallel, the 1.3.3.1 and the >>1.3.4cvs in order to test it. >>I know I can make the job by myself, but I know I won't. >>I understand it's many work for you, so maybe you could do it once a >>month or something like that. >> >>Thanks for all >> >>Raphael > > > Raphael, > > A "dummy" package is a totally empty package that has only one function to > pull > the correct package in as a dependency. It's usually used to ease such > transitions like the scribus-cvs --> scribus-ng. I'm not going to use it since > I am in the process of preparing scribus-ng for upload into Debian and there > never was a scribus-cvs package in the Debian archive before. > > As for your second question - I am going to follow the same pattern I used > with scribus-cvs. As soon as we get over the "big breakage" in the 1.3.4cvs > I'll prepare and upload a new scribus-ng package made from current sources. It > will have a name-version like "scribus-ng-1.3.3.1.dfsg+20060423", for example > if the day I build it will happen to be 2006-04-23. I'd like to re-iterate the > following point Craig and others raised on the list before. If you are using > Scribus 1.3.x branch in production then PLEASE keep a backup of that > particular .deb somewhere. You can copy it from /var/cache/apt/archives/ to a > safe location. Then, if the new package version doesn't work for your needs > you can always go to the directory where you have the older package and run > the following as root or through sudo (# is the root shell prompt): > > #dpkg --force-depends -i old_package.deb (This will install the old package > overriding the version mismatch). > #aptitude hold scribus-ng (This will put scribus-ng on hold barring it from > automated upgrades, so you will have to explicitly run "#aptitude install > scribus-ng" the next time you feel like trying a newer version). > > Regards, > > Alex. > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > Well thank you Alex, it's absolutely clear. I think I won't try the 1.3.4cvs, or maybe on another computer. Not before summer...
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