Re: Bug#217355: acknowledged by developer (fixed)
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:35:24PM +0100, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:26:32PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:47:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > > Anyway, just wait a bit and it'll be fine, or download the older version
> > > > of locales by hand. It's not difficult.
> > >
> > > While waiting or downgrading is an option, I simply insist on the fact
> > > that this problem shouldn't issue _at all_, and that it should be
> > > fixed by preventing this from happening.
>
> > If you don't want this to happen, use testing rather than unstable. It's
> > designed to insulate you from (most of) these kinds of problems.
>
> Always the same answer... Instead of telling "use at your own risk",
> shouldn't we simply try to solve known problems?
>
> There are some good reasons I'm forced to run Debian unstable, believe
> me. Why should I (and potentially many others) be annoyed by things
> that seem to be easily be avoidable with a little more fine-grained
> handling?
Because that dependency has repeatedly been demonstrated to be
necessary, and when we leave it out we get bug reports that people's
locales don't work?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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