Benjamin Mesing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't see any mention of xterm in packagesearch's changelog, nor any bugs
filed about the problem, either.
Look at changelog.gz, probably I should have copied it to
changelog.Debian.gz too. Bugs were not filed against this problem. And
to be honest
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:19:13AM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
Also note that it
was only one feature of packagesearch which broke (after all
packagesearch does only recommend xterm and works without it). But my
point was that such (unforseeable) things might break things in testing.
Sure,
Hello,
So please disregard my statement against testing
[..]
(In this case, xterm could have had a conflict with your package to
avoid screwing users over unnoticed; and we could (in future) have added
a note to the testing scripts to not allow upgrades of xterm until a
fixed version of
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:22:57PM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
So please disregard my statement against testing
(In this case, xterm could have had a conflict with your package to
avoid screwing users over unnoticed; and we could (in future) have added
a note to the testing scripts to
Hello,
However due to the QT library transition my package
which I fixed in unstable at once has not entered testing yet...
packagesearch | 2.0.4 | testing | source, alpha, ...
packagesearch | 2.0.4 | unstable | source, alpha, ...
You are right, the QT library
Thanks for your answer, and information you provided.
At the begining I have to make a correction. My happiness last for a
day or two, after that the problems with gnome, web-browsers, totem
came back (maybe after reboot ? I don't know yet..). I found some more
verbose error message from totem
Debian people are well aware of Ubuntu and their way of doing things. No
need to point it out.
As for your problem, please post to debian-user or other more apropriate
mailing list and describe it as precisely as you can. Debian-devel is
for internal development of Debian.
--
To
Hi
I would like to share some interesting experience about using debian
as desktop system.
I have been using debian as my desktop system for several years.
Lately, becouse I gained access to internet, i upgraded my system to
the latest testing distribution of debian (etch, with the Gnome 2.10
Hello,
First of all, I would like to note that I have never experienced
anything like that with my Debian desktop. The only time I have
witnessed such devastating effects was when mixing packages from various
distributions. Yes, that was my own fault. I knew it could happen and it
did
Hello
Secondly, you do not seem to understand how Debian works. Unstable is
called Unstable for a reason. It is the first stage of public testing.
Renaming it to Latest would not only falsely describe what it is, but
would simply be not true. If you want the latest, you download and
Benjamin Mesing wrote:
However I have often heard complaints about broken dependencies and
broken software in testing. From what I have heard, I would not like to
go with testing for my system.
How on Earth would that be allowed into testing? I can imagine Serious
bugs slipping trough
Hello
How on Earth would that be allowed into testing? I can imagine Serious
bugs slipping trough (because most are reported as Normal, after all),
but broken dependencies?
I admit I was imprecise, often it are conflicts (usually through library
stuff) that prevent packages from being
ma, 2006-01-02 kello 22:16 -0500, Benjamin Mesing kirjoitti:
I admit I was imprecise, often it are conflicts (usually through library
stuff) that prevent packages from being installable when you have
certain other installed, even though you would want both.
But as mentioned I am only repeating
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:29:00AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
ma, 2006-01-02 kello 22:16 -0500, Benjamin Mesing kirjoitti:
But for example I can speak for my package (packagesearch) which broke,
when xterm changed how it handles command line arguments. Of course I
didn't knew this before,
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 06:14:09PM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
However I have often heard complaints about broken dependencies and
broken software in testing.
Sure. Testing isn't perfect, it won't guarantee your software is bug
free; and furthermore it changes daily, which means which bits
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