On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:40:07AM +0100, James Westby wrote: > Do you mean by un-migratable that it isn't in etch? ...
Yes. > If so I have sympathy for you, but it is possible to get it by other > means, and the bug that is keeping it out of etch means that it shouldn't > be in Debian at all in it's current state. Okay, but the bug can be fixed, if the maintainer would do something, or so I understand. Saying "It's a bad bug" doesn't really mean much in that context. > The grave bugs you refer to are tagged unreproducible, meaning that the > maintainer has no idea why they happen, and cannot reproduce them to try > and investigate. So they just sit unfixed and unremoved forever? I did in fact notice that. > If you are suffering from a bug that is tagged unreproducible then you > should send an update to the bug report explaining your situation, and > giving any information you can, and ask the maintainer to remove the > tag. You could also aid the maintainer to try and identify what causes > the problem so that it can be fixed. It isn't that I'm suffering from it in the sense that it affects me, since I CAN'T EVEN INSTALL THE STUPID PROGRAM. It's that the presence of those two unreproducible-but-unremoved bugs keeps checkinstall out of Etch. Forever, apparently. > In the case of checkinstall I suggest that you try it, and if you > encounter the problem help the maintainer to fix it. It looks like the > chances of you hitting the bugs is slim though. How can I fix it? [pause while I do research] Okay, it's written in C. I'm not a C programmer. > If all you want to do is install vlc then you can use apt pinning and > install the version from unstable. Sure, but I shouldn't have to, and that won't get VLC into the next Stable. Nor will that fix the weirdly-ignored checkinstall. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
