Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-12 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.08.2011 19:12, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: My god, how can one be so ignorant and disrespectful as to not listen to the arguments put forward (or ask if those are not understood). Talking about arguments, I have two arguments in the form of users that have reported real issues with the

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-08-12 at 09:27am, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Your first argument was to blame the user for not using aptitude for upgrades. This turned out as bullshit, because even aptitude does not remove packages that still satisfy dependencies. I apologize for adding irrelevant and distracting noise

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-12 Thread Felipe Sateler
People, please lets keep it civil. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:49, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: You say that It is beneficial to Debian to keep package dependencies as simple as possible. Generally I agree, but I'd also say it is even more benefical to try as hard as possible not to

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-08-12 at 01:27pm, Felipe Sateler wrote: People, please lets keep it civil. Certainly. IF that remark was addressed to me, I would appreciate having it spelled out how I failed to do so (in private email if you prefer - I ask to honestly learn, not to discuss or claim innoscence). On

Re: Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.08.2011 09:38, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Does your proposed change to debian/pycompat fix it? If yes, just apply the change and let's be done with it. There was already a XS-Python-Version field in debian/control that said all, which is obviously wrong when it fails with python2.3. So

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-08-11 at 11:24am, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 08.08.2011 09:38, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Does your proposed change to debian/pycompat fix it? If yes, just apply the change and let's be done with it. There was already a XS-Python-Version field in debian/control that said all, which is

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 11.08.2011 11:34, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: No. All versions (available in Debian) indeed satisfies the package needs. My god, how can one be so stubborn! ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Re: Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-08-11 at 01:21pm, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 11.08.2011 11:34, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: No. All versions (available in Debian) indeed satisfies the package needs. My god, how can one be so stubborn! My god, how can one be so ignorant and disrespectful as to not listen to the

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 07.08.2011 13:08, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: I therefore see no reason to elevate this particular to be a general issue for Debian. I do. Are you fine with escalating this issue on -devel? - Fabian ___ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-08-08 at 09:19am, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 07.08.2011 13:08, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: I therefore see no reason to elevate this particular to be a general issue for Debian. I do. Are you fine with escalating this issue on -devel? Not exactly fine - I find it annoying, but do what

Re: Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.08.2011 09:38, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: Does your proposed change to debian/pycompat fix it? If yes, just apply the change and let's be done with it. If not, what would need to be done to fix this properly? Then we could start arguing if fixing it was worth the efford. To be honest, I

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.08.2011 10:44, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: We do not solve this issue by educating Debian packages more widely about weird possible combinations of packages: Debian support upgrades one stable release at a time - Debian do *not* support keeping around old packages! It is exact this point

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-08-08 at 11:07am, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 08.08.2011 10:44, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: We do not solve this issue by educating Debian packages more widely about weird possible combinations of packages: Debian support upgrades one stable release at a time - Debian do *not* support

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-08-06 at 12:38pm, A. Costa wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:23:20 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Closing *again* as a non-bug. I follow, but here's my 2 cents from userland... If a 'python2.3' package existed in the current Debian distros, then this bug could be moved

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-06 Thread A. Costa
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:23:20 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Closing *again* as a non-bug. I follow, but here's my 2 cents from userland... If a 'python2.3' package existed in the current Debian distros, then this bug could be moved to that package. No 'python2.3' package currently

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-08-04 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 28.07.2011 19:35, schrieb A. Costa: For the record, I've had this same install bug for about a month, even when installing with 'aptitude': [...] So the bug is real enough. Last month F. Greffrath advised: Adding = 2.4 in debian/pycompat Assuming that would help, why not do it?

Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

2011-07-28 Thread A. Costa
Package: morituri Version: 0.1.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #630787 For the record, I've had this same install bug for about a month, even when installing with 'aptitude': % aptitude install morituri ; echo $? The following NEW packages will be installed: morituri 0