Steve Litt writes:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 11:17:53 +0100 Jaromil wrote:
[...]
> Meanwhile, in my opinion, of course you should not incorporate this
> change into Devuan. This change specifically gives the finger to a
> certain subset of users, and that's no good at all. Here's an essay I
> wrote
>>> Retaining the old way of pinning today is like retaining ndiswrapper in
>>> 2006: Perhaps religionally unpalatable, but absolutely necessary to a
>>> subset of users. I hope you don't incorporate this change.
>>> And perhaps not even religionally unpalatable: I think most folks
>>> prioritize
Who, Edward, get down!
Let me ship you one of my tinfoil hats so that I'm not the only one
wearing one.
SteveT
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 11:53:07 +0100
Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Jaromil,
>
> In my opinion Debian are acting like a commercial entity: they want
> their clients to get used to any 'ine
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 11:17:53 +0100
Jaromil wrote:
> Are there alternatives for preventing packages to be installed?
>
> We need to decide if to incorporate this change also into Devuan.
>
> Many people will be negatively affected by yet another limitation of
> their freedom, being now unable to
Florian Zieboll writes:
> Mitt Green wrote:
>
>> Starting from this version pinning
>> (i.e. preventing from being installed)
>> packages this way:
>> ---
>> Package: foo
>> Pin: release *
>> Pin-Priority: -1
>> ---
>
On Wed, 02 Dec 2015, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> Here's a link to the apt_preferences(5) from an apt v1.1.3 .deb:
>
> http://zwischenspeicher.info/temp/apt_preferences.5--v1.1.3.gz
>
> open with
> # man /path/to/file.gz
>
> Seems there's no need to panic at all :-)
I'm reliefed! thanks :^) we do
Hi Jaromil,
Right now the only thing I can think of is a separate repository for
those packages.
Cheers,
Aitor.
On 02/12/15 12:08, Jaromil wrote:
Are there alternatives for preventing packages to be installed?
We need to decide if to incorporate this change also into Devuan.
Many peopl
On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:48:49 +0300
Mitt Green wrote:
> Starting from this version pinning
> (i.e. preventing from being installed)
> packages this way:
> ---
> Package: foo
> Pin: release *
> Pin-Priority: -1
> ---
>
Mitt Green writes:
[...]
> Starting from this version pinning
> (i.e. preventing from being installed)
> packages this way:
> ---
> Package: foo
> Pin: release *
> Pin-Priority: -1
> ---
> doesn't work anymore.
Jud
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:17:53AM +0100, Jaromil wrote:
>
> Are there alternatives for preventing packages to be installed?
>
> We need to decide if to incorporate this change also into Devuan.
This is not an issue for devuan at all.
Devuan doesn't rely on apt pinning anymore, we now have our
On 02/12/15 23:17, Jaromil wrote:
>
> On Wed, 02 Dec 2015, Mitt Green wrote:
>
>> Good day everyone,
>>
>> As some of you have probably
>> noticed, Unstable had received
>> their updates for APT, version 1.1.
>> It had been in Experimental for long time
>> and now it landed.
>>
>> Starting from
Jaromil,
In my opinion Debian are acting like a commercial entity: they want
their clients to get used to any 'inevitable changes' in their
products. This can also be seen as another stab in the back to
projects promoting software freedom like Devuan.
My 'little' opinion if that counts.
Edward
On Wed, 02 Dec 2015, Mitt Green wrote:
> Good day everyone,
>
> As some of you have probably
> noticed, Unstable had received
> their updates for APT, version 1.1.
> It had been in Experimental for long time
> and now it landed.
>
> Starting from this version pinning
> (i.e. preventing from be
Good day everyone,
As some of you have probably
noticed, Unstable had received
their updates for APT, version 1.1.
It had been in Experimental for long time
and now it landed.
Starting from this version pinning
(i.e. preventing from being installed)
packages this way:
---
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