Re: [joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr: Bug#68389: [nrounds@haverford.edu: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7)]]

2000-11-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Oh man, we have two very different ideas of systems. I felt slink was far too old to bother with when I was running potato, and if someone asked me to go back to potato today, I would be driven up the wall. :) I don't know why your report was closed. My guess is, whoever closed it simply raced thr

Re: [joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr: Bug#68389: [nrounds@haverford.edu: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7)]]

2000-11-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Oh man, we have two very different ideas of systems. I felt slink was far too old to bother with when I was running potato, and if someone asked me to go back to potato today, I would be driven up the wall. :) I don't know why your report was closed. My guess is, whoever closed it simply raced th

Re: [joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr: Bug#68389: [nrounds@haverford.edu: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7)]]

2000-11-30 Thread Seth Arnold
* Rounds Nathaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001130 16:38]: > I don't know if you have access to the original bug report, but I tried Heh, the wonderful thing about debian is that the bug reports are all available via a filesystem rather than through CGI business. So, all the debian bug reports get ind

Re: [joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr: Bug#68389: [nrounds@haverford.edu: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7)]]

2000-11-30 Thread Seth Arnold
* Rounds Nathaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001130 16:38]: > I don't know if you have access to the original bug report, but I tried Heh, the wonderful thing about debian is that the bug reports are all available via a filesystem rather than through CGI business. So, all the debian bug reports get in

Re: [joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr: Bug#68389: [nrounds@haverford.edu: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7)]]

2000-11-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Nathaniel, you are right -- reporting a bug against -10 and hearing it is fixed in -7 is a little strange. WRT your error message, I have approached similar problems in the past by using dpkg directly on the apt-downloaded .deb packages, using the --force-overwrite option. The problem isn't the ac

Re: [joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr: Bug#68389: [nrounds@haverford.edu: Re: Bug#68389 acknowledged by developer (fixed with -7)]]

2000-11-30 Thread Seth Arnold
Nathaniel, you are right -- reporting a bug against -10 and hearing it is fixed in -7 is a little strange. WRT your error message, I have approached similar problems in the past by using dpkg directly on the apt-downloaded .deb packages, using the --force-overwrite option. The problem isn't the a