Re: checkinstall lacking on stable
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I got the surprise of not finding "checkinstall" on
> "etch", for both amd64 and i386, though I don't care
> for the latter.
>
> Questions;
>
> (1) Which the reason for removing "checkinstall" from
> "etch", in view of my reasons above?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/checkinstall/news/20060204T220817Z.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281823
I can't say I really understand the process. Apparently the bug was
filed with 'severity: critical', but later downgraded to 'normal'. It
was nevertheless removed from testing in Feb. 2006. A fixed version
appeared in Dec., but for some reason didn't migrate to testing until
Mar. 2007, which I suppose was after the Etch freeze.
>
> (2) How to remedy? Just by compiling on "etch"
> "checkinstall" from source? Or are dependencies not
> hurtled if a install "checkinstall" with "apt-get
> install" on "etch" "checkinstall" taked from "lenny"?
>
> Thanks
>
> francesco pietra
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