Bug#539784: address lookup errors from terminals

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Hedges
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: reassign 539784 general thanks I get the same in an xterm. Not a gnome-terminal bug. Yeah on the console too. Is it a network-manager problem maybe? I use iwl3945 - it is definitely broken at Brendan's Bakery on Mission in Santa Cruz -

Bug#539784: closed by Simon McVittie s...@debian.org (Re: Bug#539784: address lookup errors only in gnome-terminal)

2009-08-04 Thread Mark Hedges
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precheck depends before package removal; notification period

2003-06-30 Thread Mark Hedges
Shouldn't there be a policy to check for packages that depend on a package BEFORE its removal from the distribution, and to notify maintainers ahead of time that their packages will break? Such was the case with the disappearance of perlapi-5.6.1. --mark--

perlapi-5.6.1

2003-06-29 Thread Mark Hedges
I apologize for filing multiple bug reports about this before seeking consensus on the list. Is someone going to put perlapi-5.6.1 back into sarge? Lots of packages indirectly depend on this and cannot be installed now. Should there be a dummy package for compatibility with perl 5.8.0? Thank

Bug#198479: general: perlapi-5.6.1 missing in sarge since perl 5.8.0 rollout

2003-06-28 Thread Mark Hedges
Package: general Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-28 Followup-For: Bug #198479 There needs to be a backwards-compatible perlapi-5.6.1 module which apt-file and other depend on to install. Since rolling out perl 5.8.0, many packages that depend on perl 5.6.1 components have broken or will