On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:59:32AM +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>
> Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > | - making local changes to the official version. In this case, the most
> > |reliable way is to make the version string sort as older than the
> > |official one (using the "tilde" feature of d
Frans Pop wrote:
However, I would actually prefer this to be integrated in the regular
package management frontends (e.g. aptitude) rather than a separate tool.
aptitude will show that different versions of a package are available.
Unfortunately it won't show where these different versions co
On Thursday 14 August 2008 03:00, Frans Pop wrote:
> Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > I've just started to do research in order to write a tool which I was
> > always missing. What I have so far is just a brief "background"
> > information, explaining the problem - see below.
>
> I agree that this is a mi
Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> I've just started to do research in order to write a tool which I was
> always missing. What I have so far is just a brief "background"
> information, explaining the problem - see below.
I agree that this is a missing feature ATM: to be able to see at a glance
which packag
On 10/08/08 at 09:42 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Marcin Owsiany]
> > I thought it might be good to ask here if I'm not trying to reinvent
> > something that already exists. Or maybe someone has some ideas about
> > this issue?
>
> One idea that occured to me, was to use the information co
Hello,
Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> | - making local changes to the official version. In this case, the most
> |reliable way is to make the version string sort as older than the
> |official one (using the "tilde" feature of dpkg) and force
> |installation of such package using pinning.
[Marcin Owsiany]
> I thought it might be good to ask here if I'm not trying to reinvent
> something that already exists. Or maybe someone has some ideas about
> this issue?
One idea that occured to me, was to use the information collected by
popularity-contest to see how many are using backported
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