Re: Two packages form Ubuntu 8.04 (amd64)

2009-08-04 Thread Siegfried-Angel
Hi, Thanks for your interest in contributing to Ubuntu. 2009/8/3 Jean-Christophe Cazenave cazen...@math.jussieu.fr: glimpse: http://webglimpse.net , a tool for indexing text files in a tree of directories http://revu.ubuntuwire.com is the place for new packages. bash-4.0: my objective was

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread C de-Avillez
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 19:49 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: I've found a bug (or maybe it's a feature request) in apt (or maybe it's in software-properties-gtk). I'd like to get people's opinions about where this is best reported, and what the report should say. When you add a repository to

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Bienia
On 2009-08-01 19:49:33 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: When you add a repository to your computer, then remove that repository, it's not obvious how to downgrade packages that are no longer available. Downgrades are not supported, while in practise they work in most cases. Offering such a

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Sayers
You make a good point about breakage when packages are downgraded. But it seems a little disingenuous for us to bend over backwards to make unsupported upgrades possible (adding a software sources menu item, putting PPAs in Launchpad, creating /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and so on), then for us

Re: Downgrading packages after removing a repository

2009-08-04 Thread C de-Avillez
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 17:56 +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: On 2009-08-01 19:49:33 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote: When you add a repository to your computer, then remove that repository, it's not obvious how to downgrade packages that are no longer available. Downgrades are not supported, while