Re: libstdc++ breakage?

[Philippe Marzouk <phil@ozigo.org>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:05:50PM -0500, Good Times wrote:
> hi
> 
> i want to downgrade this package
> 
> but i've never been able to find the best way to do it
> 
> i believe /etc/apt/preferences is the best way, but then what is the
> best way to find the previous version of the package?
> 
> i see from this mail what it is, but for next time, is there an option
> to apt or dpkg that will give me all the previous versions of a
> package?

I don't know if there is an option in dpkg or apt, when problems like
these arise, I look in /var/cache/apt/archives for the old versions
which are still lying around as I do not launch 'apt-get autoclean' very
regularly.

> 
> ps.
> 
> this list doesn't reply-to and i keep forgetting that, so i
> accidentally sent it to the poster and not the list
> 

As you're using mutt you could :

add 'subscribe debian-user' to ~/.mutt/muttrc and then reply on the list
with 'L'

You could also set your editor to wrap at 72 characters to avoid sending
very long lines, if you're using vim here is my command that I found
somewhere, stick it in your muttrc (in one line) :

set editor="vim +':set textwidth=72' +':set wrap' +\`awk '/^$/ {print
i+2; exit} {i++}' %s\` %s"


Philippe