Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Saturday 12 March 2005 12:38 pm, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | only has use if it's a transition package depending on the renamed > | package. Since this isn't what r-gnome will be as far as I understand > | you, you should simply stop building r-gnome from r-base. People > | upgrading will notic

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:30:54AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Ok, so I just did the following > > 1) Run 'wajig reconfigure apt-listchanges' to ensure apt-listchanges shows >everything, even on versions we've seen before > 2) 'wajig purge r-gnome' > 3) 'wajig install r-gnome' and verif

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 March 2005 at 17:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-12 11:42]: | > 4) Scratch my head because even though 3) uses apt-get and 1) ensure NEWS | >should be mailed to me, and 2) ensure it is a fresh package install, I get | >nothing. | | It

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 March 2005 at 11:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | Ok, so I just did the following | | 1) Run 'wajig reconfigure apt-listchanges' to ensure apt-listchanges shows |everything, even on versions we've seen before | 2) 'wajig purge r-gnome' | 3) 'wajig install r-gnome' and verify with -t that

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Jeroen, On 12 March 2005 at 18:09, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: | On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome front-end. | | without, I assume. Yup. Thanks for spotting that from context. | > So t

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-12 11:42]: > 4) Scratch my head because even though 3) uses apt-get and 1) ensure NEWS >should be mailed to me, and 2) ensure it is a fresh package install, I get >nothing. It is only shown on fresh package *upgrades*, not installs. -- Mart

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Martin, Thanks for the quick reply. On 12 March 2005 at 17:04, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-12 10:45]: | > So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to | > signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message).

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome front-end. without, I assume. > So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to > signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf

Re: debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-12 10:45]: > So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to > signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message). However, in > my tests, the NEWS file never got displayed by apt-listchanges. apt-listchanges is

debian/NEWS.Debian / apt-listchanges woes

2005-03-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome front-end. So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message). However, in my tests, the NEWS file never got displayed by apt-listchanges. I pl