Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-08 Thread John Galt
What is cat? On Mon, 7 May 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Rob Mahurin wrote: Makes it read like a conversation. Question? Answer! makes more sense to read than Answer! Question? What's the matter?

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: Karsten == Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Karsten Place your response *after* quoted material. Why? Makes it read like a conversation. Question? Answer! makes more sense to read than Answer! Question? I like

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:42) : Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it Thanks, I'll try it. probably aggravated by version mismatches. Since ximian no longer claims to support woody, I commented them out of my apt sources.list. I look

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) : Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:42) : Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it Thanks, I'll try it. # apt-get install reportbug Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/05/2001 (13:50) : # apt-get install reportbug Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Rob Mahurin wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: Karsten == Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Karsten Place your response *after* quoted material. Why? Makes it read like a conversation. Question? Answer! makes more sense to read than

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) : Thanks, I'll try it. # apt-get install reportbug [...] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: reportbug: Depends: python-newt but it is not

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Rob Mahurin wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: Karsten == Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Karsten Place your response *after* quoted material. Why? Makes it read

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:11:38PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Rob Mahurin wrote: Makes it read like a conversation. Question? Answer! makes more sense to read than Answer! Question? What's the matter? You don't like Jeopardy? :b I'll take flamewars for

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Preben Randhol
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : If it's a Debian package (e.g.: not Ximian), file a Debian bug. Yes, but why isn't this problem picked up by the package process before the package gets out there? And for bug report it would be great if there was a program

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
Preben == Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Preben Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome Preben packages. I only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the Preben packagers. Gnome is a big complex system, but I'm just Preben wondering why this seem to

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Ross Boylan
Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it seemed the right choice for me, and works pretty well. The only problem is that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to query the existing bug database; I'm not sure why. It's often much slower than getting the same info on

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:43:51PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Try reportbug. This is not the only debian bug report tool, but it seemed the right choice for me, and works pretty well. The only problem is that it sometimes takes quite awhile for it to query the existing bug

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
Ross == Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ross this would temporarily remove much of my system, and since some key Ross packages aren't in woody (e.g., sawmill), I took a less radical Ross approach. It is called sawfish-gnome, and it is in unstable. Not sure about testing

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-06 Thread Brian May
Karsten == Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Karsten Place your response *after* quoted material. Why? I like to see the new message at the top, instead of having to scroll down to access it. Especially in this case, since you can tell what the poster is saying without reading

Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-05 Thread Preben Randhol
Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome packages. I only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the packagers. Gnome is a big complex system, but I'm just wondering why this seem to always happen. -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 04:49:42PM +0200, Preben Randhol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Why is there always problems with files being in two gnome packages. I only ask to get a rationale, not to blame the packagers. Gnome is a big complex system, but I'm just wondering why this seem to always