SUMMARY -- Generic handling of WORD, EXCEL, FILE MANGER ...

2006-06-15 Thread Jari Aalto+usenet
-- This is summary of thread: -- Subject: Bug#363486: dpkg: [update-alternatives] New categories for: WORD, EXCEL ... Please comment. --Jari THE INTENTION There are many programs that can act on a file if it contains certain extension. The use of program names like 'konqueror', 'xfe'

Re: Bug#363486: dpkg: [update-alternatives] New categories for: WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc.

2006-06-14 Thread Jari Aalto+usenet
* Wed 2006-06-14 Thibaut Paumard paumard AT users.sourceforge.net * Message-Id: 1150288566.1225.141.camel AT pc-paumard.mpe-garching.mpg.de Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 01:33 +0200, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : Why not have something that starts the proper program according to the given mimetype?

Re: severities of blocking bugs

2006-06-13 Thread Jari Aalto+usenet
* Fri 2006-06-09 Ian Jackson ian AT davenant.greenend.org.uk If some program lacks a feature or bugfix you want for your package, then _implement it_ instead of whining ! Most maintainers are much more cooperative when you tag the bug as +patch and say something like: Nope. If you happend to