--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas, I can understand your sigh, but searching bugs.debian.org and > actually finding relevant material is not as easy for the uninitiated as
:) Thanks, Kent. It's not so much the point that it's daunting (although I suppose this is true), but more the point that if one is running Unstable, the BTS should be the *first* "port of call". What would the OP done if the bug wasn't filed? Would he have submitted one? He might have. Would he have been able to fix it himself? Clearly not. A not unreasonable solution might have been: # dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/....../package.deb ... if the bug was not listed. Of course, this raises the question whether the OP is "ready" for Unstable. The breakage in the above package is nothing serious -- not as serious as some of the other breakages, anyway. It's only a question of time before he's left lying on his back, legs twitching in the air. Don't take it personally, but this is the second time within the last few days where we (as in the sense of debian-user) have had to play the BTS-frontend, for an otherwise simple operation. -- Thomas Adam ===== "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
