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Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?



On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Adam Heath wrote:
> 
> The upstream gnome developers aren't bumping the soname.  How else do you
> explain how dpkg can say all dependencies are filled, yet a gnome app
> segfaults?
> 

That could be - 
 * Mistakes in the upstream tarball for any of the almost 30 libraries
   involved - submit a bug report
 * Packaging mistakes in any of those libraries
 * Crufty headers on the machine where the app was compiled
 * The app is just broken - bug report.
 * The library is just broken - bug report.
 * You have old cruft on your machine.
 * etc., ad infinitum.

Submit a bug report. Or wait for 1.0. 

I'm sorry but it is simply not acceptable to gripe about bugs in alpha
software. Especially *free* alpha software. Reporting them is fine,
griping is not.

Even though I'm quite sure you're right that this has been broken in some
of the tarballs.

Havoc




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