Re: [joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr: Bug#68389: [nrounds@haverford.edu: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7)]]
Oh man, we have two very different ideas of systems. I felt slink was
far too old to bother with when I was running potato, and if someone
asked me to go back to potato today, I would be driven up the wall. :)
I don't know why your report was closed. My guess is, whoever closed it
simply raced through the report, and it looked similar to problems with
the 4.0.1 series, and the closer knew that it was fixed in 4.0.1-7. This
is just a guess though. <shrug>
I don't know what your best bet is -- waiting for woody to become the
new stable is probably going to be a long wait indeed. :-/
* Rounds Nathaniel <nrounds@haverford.edu> [001130 19:30]:
> So here's the deal. Yes, it has been a few months since I first submitted
> this, but 1) my semester started in september (I am a junior at haverford
> college, as the email address suggests) so I have had very little time
> since mid-august to play sys-admin and tinker with my linux system. And
> 2) My system isn't really broken. I did more or less break it the first
> time I upgraded to potato using dist-upgrade, in august, because x-window
> needed several packages which depend on xbase-client. I solved the
> problem by going back to the old version (slink?) to get everything back
> up and running. When it became clear that xbase-client wasn't going to
> happen, I held the old versions of everything that depended on the new
> xbase-client -- 11 deb packages -- and upgraded everything else. So my
> system is working fine, I just haven't dared to try and upgrade those
> packages again, because life without x-window just isn't very much fun.
>
> I don't have any real problem using the old versions of those 11 packages,
> but if the xbase-client developer or anyone else wise in the ways of deb
> packages has had insight as to *why* xbase-client won't install on my
> system, then I would love to hear about it. I was specifically curious
> whether whatever action resulted in my bug report being closed involved
> insight that might be helpful to me.
>
> Anyway, thanks again for your time.
>
> Nathaniel
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Seth Arnold wrote:
>
> > * Rounds Nathaniel <nrounds@haverford.edu> [001130 16:38]:
> > > I don't know if you have access to the original bug report, but I tried
> >
> > Heh, the wonderful thing about debian is that the bug reports are all
> > available via a filesystem rather than through CGI business. So, all the
> > debian bug reports get indexed via altavista and google and whatnot.
> > When doing searches for only vaugely related topics, the debian bug
> > tracking system is often high on the list. :)
> >
> > > At any rate, no method of installation I tried -- including a force
> > > install on the specific deb file using dpkg -- worked when I was playing
> > > with all of this a few months ago, I am just curious if "fixed in -7"
> > > means that I have any reason to expect things to go better if I try again.
> >
> > So does this mean that your package system has been broken for several
> > months? (Since submitting this, which I think was in mid august..)
> >
> > > Thanks a lot for responding so quicking -- even though Debian is a free
> > > system, I've gotten more support from you guys than Apple or Microsoft
> > > ever gave me.
> >
> > Amen. Nearly all free software projects will give the same level of
> > support. (OpenBSD's misc@ group for instance discusses code patches with
> > the primary architect of the whole setup; I worry about what goes on in
> > the tech@ group. I remember one user asking a question, and within ten
> > minutes, he had four answers all suggesting which manpage he needed to
> > read. :)
> >
> > The one time I called MS, it took four techs and two hours to sort out
> > that `autodetect' doesn't work on many network cards. And, I still pine
> > for the days when MS's knowledge base was easy to use. *sigh*
> >
> > In the end, I think most of us remember our early days of stumbling
> > blindly, and want to help make that process fun for newcomers :) , and most
> > of us have our own strange questions that require the help of still more
> > experienced users.
> >
> > Now if only I had a clue about your current problem. (BTW -- as long as
> > you have the .debs on your system, you can revert to them at any time.
> > Well, within C library versions I think this is the case. :)
> >
> > Cheers :)
> >
> > --
> > ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all
> > really impressed down here, I can tell you.''
> >
>
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