Re: task-kde broken
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, David A. Greene wrote:
> Look. I don't need this from you. I understand the FTP maintainers
> aren't at my beck and call. But the KDE maintainer uploaded some
> new KDE packages NOT linked to liblcms and those went through
> just fine to unstable. I am still waiting for liblcms. That
> doesn't make any sense to me. Why did packages sent LATER to
> incoming arrive EARLIER?
>
It's brand new packages that take a long time because they require manual
intervention. One a package is in, upgrades are practically automatic.
> To my previous question, I received the reply, "it's in incoming."
> I've asked how to get it from incoming, but received little to
> no reply. I've RTFM'd, but can't find the info. What am I
> _supposed_ to do? I'm trying to get a working machine here.
>
You can access the incoming queue at http://incoming.debian.org/
It's not aptable (that would rather defeat the purpose don't you
think?) but you can download the .debs and install them with dpkg -i
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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