Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-10 Thread Marco Pistore
Hi, thanks for your comments on this problems! I am sorry for the delay in the answer: there have been problems with the my mail server during the week-end... SUMMARY: the problem is that libpaper depends on libpaperg, which is bad, since it can create problems when upgrading from bo. The depende

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, in cases like this the order in which the deb files are > presented to dpkg is relevant. So if a novice is upgrading a large > set of packages, and the packages are not presented in the corect > order, the upgrade process issues ominous

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The only remedy is to remove the old libpaper, and then to install >> libpaper and libpaperg. James> Where *did* you get this idea from? It's 200% bogus. >> 14:20:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~/temp $sudo dpkg -iEG libpaper_1.0.3-9.deb >> l

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SOLUTION 3 > > -- > > Well, we can also decide that to leave the situation as it is. In this > > way, however, users would not be able to install the new version of the > > library without also installing libpaperg (and libc6...) > > That isn't

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Roman Hodek
> SOLUTION 3 > -- > Well, we can also decide that to leave the situation as it is. In this > way, however, users would not be able to install the new version of the > library without also installing libpaperg (and libc6...) That isn't the real problem, but the upgrade from an old system (