Re: replacement for apt-listchanges?
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On 08/07/07 04:57, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-08-06 20:05:44 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>> Can you describe the breakage? I've found that packages that rely on
>> python for a GUI break (GUI freezes), I've always blamed it on the GUI.
>> Base python itself I've never had break.
>
> Here are some of them I've recorded:
>
> In May (this one was under Mac OS X), the python upgrade
> (2.4.3 -> 2.4.4) broken Mercurial:
> ImportError: No module named _locale
>
> In April, the upgrade of python2.4-minimal failed during configuration
> (and apt-get install -f didn't solve the problem).
>
> In June 2006, fail2ban dies with "unknown locale" error (the
> problem occurred with python2.3 and later versions, but not
> with python2.2). The fix was the following:
>
> 0.7. branch of fail2ban within testing/unstable has substantially
> different handling of dates, and doesn't rely on python's locale
> anymore which remains to be prone to this bug (see #369689 reassigned
> from fail2ban long ago).
>
> In February 2006, messages forwarded by Forte Agent got corrupted
> by getmail. The bug has never been identified (the author of getmail
> couldn't reproduce it with my testcase), but it is thought to come
> from some python version.
Two responses:
1. That's not many breakages. (And one of them is OSX!!!)
2. I see application bugs. GvR announces when they're making
changes that will break things.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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