Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread nate
Colin Watson said: > Do you blame him? The version of ssh in potato was basically a hideous > pile of buggy crap in lots of ways, and the maintainer *cannot* update it > for anything other than security updates: the upload simply won't be > accepted. Let the old bugs die. How long security suppor

Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:35:34AM -0700, nate wrote: > Robert L. Harris said: > > This looks like a bug in the install scripts within the .deb. Did > > anything else fail as well? Mine upgraded fine but I'm on woody not > > potato. See if dpkg upgraded (it may use -t). If not then just hang

Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread nate
Robert L. Harris said: > > > This looks like a bug in the install scripts within the .deb. Did > anything else fail as well? Mine upgraded fine but I'm on woody not > potato. See if dpkg upgraded (it may use -t). If not then just hang on > a day or so, the maintainer will hopefully fix it (my

Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread nate
Simon Young said: > > Hi all, > > I have a very strange problem. I'm trying to upgrade ssh on a potato box, > but dpkg always exits with the following error: I would check the path, see where ssh-keygen is, maybe another copy of it is being called from another location, if thats the case update y

Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread Claudio Bley
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 14:13, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > This looks like a bug in the install scripts within the .deb. Did > anything else fail as well? Mine upgraded fine but I'm on woody not > potato. See if dpkg upgraded (it may use -t). If not then just hang on > a day or so, the mai

Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Simon Young wrote: > # dpkg -i ssh_1%3a3.4p1-0.0potato1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 35706 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace ssh 1:1.2.3-9.4 (using ssh_1%3a3.4p1-0.0potato1_i386.deb) ... > Stopping OpenBSD Secure Shell

Re: ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
very quickly) or the maintainer or the broken dependancy needs to have something pushed to potato. Thus spake Simon Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:11:39 +0100 > From: Simon Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ssh refuses to insta

ssh refuses to install (potato)

2002-09-27 Thread Simon Young
Hi all, I have a very strange problem. I'm trying to upgrade ssh on a potato box, but dpkg always exits with the following error: # dpkg -i ssh_1%3a3.4p1-0.0potato1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 35706 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ssh 1:1.2.3-9.4 (using ssh_