Bug#499854: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#499854: closed by Michael Meskes

2008-09-24 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:18:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: That's also a completly random way to do it, that'd going to fail in oddball situations. For example, what if someone puts Ubuntu sources entries in a Debian system temporarily? If you have Ubuntu sources configured you might install

Bug#499854: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#499854: closed by Michael Meskes

2008-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Meskes wrote: If you have Ubuntu sources configured you might install Ubuntu packages which makes the check work. After all there is but one reason for this, to make sure an Ubuntu dir does not have an effect on a pure Debian system. I could also install ubuntu packages by hand using

Bug#499854: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#499854: closed by Michael Meskes

2008-09-24 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:50:27AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I could also install ubuntu packages by hand using dpkg. Or I could set up a mirror that claims to be a debian mirror and contains ubuntu packages. All three cases are vanishingly unlikely, and will break my system eventually anyway,