Yves-Alexis, Thank you for the help. I haven't been using debian that long and I am still learning the finer points of package management.
I'm sure that you noticed the most recent version of xfce4-panel isn't as new as expected. The policy command on my machine shows 4.6.1-3, I pasted the output below. command: apt-cache policy xfce4-panel returns: xfce4-panel: Installed: 4.6.1-3~bpo50+1 Candidate: 4.6.1-3~bpo50+1 Version table: *** 4.6.1-3~bpo50+1 0 200 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4.4.2-6 0 500 file: lenny/main Packages 500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Fred --- On Tue, 1/4/11, Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> wrote: > From: Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> > Subject: Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#607968: Bug#607968: xfce4-panel: xfce-panel > appears as normal window > To: 607...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: "Fred Smith" <fredsmith9...@yahoo.com> > Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 1:16 AM > On mar., 2011-01-04 at 07:51 +0100, > Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On lun., 2011-01-03 at 18:44 -0800, Fred Smith wrote: > > > How do I check what version of glib was installed > before to use backports on it? > > > > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libglib2.0-0 > > > > > > > > Note, using backports to upgrade xfce4-panel > fails to install anything. I tried > > > both install and build-de, build-dep errors, > install just doesn't install > > > anything. > > > > > > aptitude -t lenny-backports install xfce4-panel > > > aptitude -t lenny-backports build-dep xfce4-panel > > > > > http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/xfce4-panel > so 4.6.1 should > > be available. What does > > > > apt-cache policy xfce4-panel > > > > returns? > > Mhmh, seems that, for some reason, I never uploaded 4.6.4 > to backports, > and as the bug is fixed in 4.6.3, well... > > Stay tuned, I'm currently processing my backlog to upload > the whole > stuff to backports, but it might not reach you right now. > > Regards, > -- > Yves-Alexis > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org