hi > A thought... > > The only way that I can find to avoid receiving the 'No hash entry' > error with this Debian Scribus repository is to presume the package in > the repository is source code (deb-src) only. > eg. in the sources.list file put: > > deb-src http://... > > instead of > deb http://... > > So maybe there isn't a binary (deb) package available in this > repository only a source code package. > > If this is true what's happened to the binary (deb) file as it used to > exist in this repository in the past?
since this thread is starting to contain some "strange" information, let's try to spread some knowledge from somebody who has been using the deb packages for years and has already had the chance to chat with the debian maintainer... :-) there is a maintainer for the debian packages and he has been a team member for a long time. his nick is malex and his name aleksander. for many years, he has been providing the official packages for debian and has also been maintaining an "own" repository with newer packages than the ones that are in the official debian repository. the "own" repository is both hosted on his own server and on scribus' server. there was a problem with the platform where malex is building the .deb files and i don't know if has been solved. the current problem is with the packages that are hosted on those two servers, not with the official packages on debian. it's high summer and malex may have some holidays or e might be very busy with his job. finally, it's has already happened in the past that some of the deb packages on the scribus server did not work correctly and it has always been solved after some time. now, the options for you are: - if your scribus is already installed, keep everything as is and "ignore" the warning. the new packages will flow in as soon as they have been uploaded (or remove the entry and add it again as soon as you know that it has been provided). your scribus will continue to work as it used (but you won't get the most recent improvements for now) - if you haven't installed scribus yet, you can install the one (a bit older) provided by debian (or ubuntu) or compile scribus from sources if you really want the latest version. for most uses, it should be good enough. - if you want to compile from source, "sudo apt-get build-dep scribus" will fetch for you most of the packages you will be needing. then you will be able to get and compile the latest scribus. maybe, in the long term there are ways to help out, but i fear that in the short term there is not much you can do to improve the current situation... but: who knows? ciao a.l.e
