Re: gettext is one minor rev too old
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:10:57 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>On Tuesday 12 January 2016 11:36:52 Brian wrote:
>
>> On Mon 11 Jan 2016 at 21:25:16 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > On Monday 11 January 2016 13:30:41 Brian wrote:
>> > > C'mon. At the very least you have
>> > >
>> > > https://packages.debian.org
>> > >
>> > > for what archives have and the wiki for telling you how to use
>> > > backports. Help others to help you by helping yourself.
>> >
>> > Snotty attitudes don't cut it, and neither does that site. The
>> > search engine is apparently set to scan for jessie(stable) only, or
>> > at least it returns zero results for wheezy. And once you have used
>> > the search, you
>>
>> We in the Snotty Brigade hand out fishing tackle, not fish. We are
>> pleased to see the policy has appeared to work in your case.
>
>ROTFLMAO! And my apologies for my own attitude caused by all the
>frustrations I've encountered the last week or so.
>
>I had that coming I guess, but that site is just different enough to
>confuse this old fart.
>
>I did figure out how to make synaptic make use of wheezy-backports, so I
>said to myself, I can't make it any worse, so I let it install over 300
>pkgs from backports. Other that tar, its running better than it has in
>quite a spell, although I understand Lisi is holding her breath because
>I've gone someplace that even angels don't. We'll see I guess, but like
>the guy who said he was going to live forever, so far, so good. I can,
>at 81, and despite a pulmonary embolism that came very close to punching
>my ticket out of here at the end of May 2014, can also say so far so
>good. Most of the time.
>
>If I had known at 20 that I was going to live this long, I sure would
>have taken better care of me.
>
>This, from a guy who was a geek before the word was invented, I quit
>school in 1948 to go see if I could fix these newfangled things called
>televisions, and I "had the knack", and its incurable. I am glad it
>wasn't, because of pure serendipity, I've left my fingerprints in some
>unusual, one of a kind places over the last 67 years, like the tv
>cameras that were on the Trieste in Feb, 1960 when it went down into the
>mohole.
>
>But the combo of age, and hard to define aspects of the P-E with its
>potential for mini-strokes, has me asking questions of you kind folks
>that 30 years ago I would have written the code to find my own answers
>to. And as you can imagine, its frustrating.
>
>The rest as they say is history.
>
>Cheers, Gene Heskett
I am "only" 62, and run into many of the same things. I would only hope
if I make 80, I can still function on my own.
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