Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Santiago Vila wrote:' > >Please, tell me how much harm does to add a Pre-Depends field on libc6, >ncurses3.4 and libreadlineg2 for netstd. I can tell you how much >inconvenience does *not* to add it and then we can make a comparison >between those two inconveniences. Too much, IMHO. -- Christop

Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-18 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Peter Tobias wrote: > On Apr 16, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Summary: In a bo system, I managed to upgrade netstd without installing > > libreadlineg2 first and the simple ftp client stopped working. This is a > > really bad situation I really

Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-17 Thread Peter Tobias
On Apr 16, Santiago Vila wrote: > Summary: In a bo system, I managed to upgrade netstd without installing > libreadlineg2 first and the simple ftp client stopped working. This is a > really bad situation I really do not desire to anybody. > > This should not have happened if netstd would have a Pr

Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-16 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > Please, tell me how much harm does to add a Pre-Depends field on libc6, > ncurses3.4 and libreadlineg2 for netstd. I can tell you how much > inconvenience does *not* to add it and then we can make a comparison > between those two inconveniences. I've h

Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-16 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [ This was: Bug#13849: netstd should predepend on libreadlineg2 ] [ I would like to appeal to the technical comittee here. Unfortunately the technical comittee does not exist yet and all we have so far is debian-devel. Therefore we will have to discuss it here a