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Re: Iceape



Bret Busby wrote:

>
> In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were
> available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape.
>
> So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my system up
> to date, and as stable and secure as it can (reasonably) be.
>
> Now when using Iceape, each time any window is closed, such as sending
> an email message, or, closing a browser window, when more than one
> Iceape Window is open, it crashes Iceape, and everything open with
> Iceape, shuts down.
>
> Is it possible to reverse an "update", to get a more stable version of
> software?
>
> The Help -> About Iceape shows the version/build to be
> "Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
> rv:1.8.0.13pre) Gecko/20070505 Iceape/1.0.9
> (Debian-1.0.12~pre080131b-0etch1)"
>
> Synaptic, in the History, shows:
> "Commit Log for Mon Feb 25 12:07:58 2008
>
>
> Upgraded the following packages:
> iceape (1.0.11~pre071022-0etch1) to 1.0.12~pre080131b-0etch1
> iceape-browser (1.0.11~pre071022-0etch1) to 1.0.12~pre080131b-0etch1
> iceape-calendar (1.0.11~pre071022-0etch1) to 1.0.12~pre080131b-0etch1
> iceape-mailnews (1.0.11~pre071022-0etch1) to 1.0.12~pre080131b-0etch1
> "
>
> And Iceape is now unstable (should it belong in the version of Debian,
> named Sid ?).
>
> -- 
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>  you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>   written by Douglas Adams,
>   published by Pan Books, 1992
>
> ....................................................
>
>
Are you sure ?
The latest (etch) is version 1.5.0.14pre (20080208)
So is mine (etch)




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