Thomas, Thanks for contacting us. It is always good to see people reading our stuff!
n 9/4/06, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm aware that you people are most probably not the best contact persons > for some of the issues addressed below, so feel free to forward me > somewhere else. > > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:49:47PM -0700, Corey Burger wrote: > > = Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #12 = > > > > [...] > > First of all, thanks for writing (or helping to write) those! Your welcome. <snip> > > If you are able, please help us test this update. You can find more > > information at FIXME (location of wiki page that talks about how to > > test dapper-proposed) > > FIXME. Where is that? ;-) Right, that was a brown paper bag issue. I should have caught it and didn't. There currently is no wiki page on it, although I will bug somebody to create one > > I'd like to help as I have the knowledge to repair a broken system. And > in fact I had been using dapper-proposed a few months ago. But I > disabled it again, because it rendered the OpenOffice.org installation > unusable because of inter package problems and I didn't see a real > benefit in using it. Now I re-enabled it. Let's see where this will now > lead to. > > ... and here we go: > > #v+ > Preparing to replace openoffice.org-impress 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.1 (using > .../openoffice.org-impress_2.0.3-6dapper1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement openoffice.org-impress ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-impress_2.0.3-6dapper1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/fcfg_impressgraphics_filters.xcu', > which is also in package openoffice.org-common > Preparing to replace openoffice.org-draw 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.1 (using > .../openoffice.org-draw_2.0.3-6dapper1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement openoffice.org-draw ... > Replacing files in old package openoffice.org-core ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-draw_2.0.3-6dapper1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/fcfg_drawgraphics_filters.xcu', > which is also in package openoffice.org-common > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-impress_2.0.3-6dapper1_i386.deb > /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-draw_2.0.3-6dapper1_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > #v- > > That's after simply having added dapper-proposed to an otherwise clean (I > suppose) system. Whom to contact about that? Please file a bug if something in their breaks, mention is a dapper-proposed update. > > > In general, where can I read about how to help the Ubuntu project > w.r.t. testing proposed updates and also especially issues related to > using it on laptops? (I have a ThinkPad T42.) Testing laptops is the laptop testing team, which can be found at: wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam cheers, Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
