On 10 September 2012 06:07, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> If anybody wants to see something land into this release, it would be
> nice to mention it now instead of after the end of the merge window.
Is there potential to see pkgsel use apt-get instead of aptitude
(following the same change in tasksel)
On 2 June 2013 03:10, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It would probably be a good idea for the installer to add commented-out
> sources.list lines for the main archive, even if the installation is done
> off-line. (Assuming that it doesn't, but Nikolas's experience seems to
> indicate that it doesn't.)
>
Hello
I am looking at Bug#516854 and wondering:
Is there a robust way for a *user* to detect if root login is
disabled? Would like to perform such a check from an instance of
aptitude running as a user account.
I am aware of the following method which detects the `passwd -l' style
lock, however
Igor Pashev wrote:
> su?
su doesn't distinguish between a locked password and an incorrectly entered one.
Would like to know the locked status before trying su so that the
program can either fall back to sudo or give an error message more
informative than just "incorrect password".
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TL;DR: aptitude does keep dpkg/status and apt/extended_states
up-to-date with the *current* state of a package, just like other
software. Please do not grok pkgstates to determine if something is
installed, etc.
On 18 March 2012 23:16, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
wrote:
> Hi, I like ds
On 19 October 2012 09:19, Christoph Anton Mitterer
wrote:
> 1) Programs (I usually mean apt or aptitude here don't give exit
> statuses != 0 in all cases when something critical has happened.
The apt-utils are mostly ok at aborting with non-zero for critical
errors. Aptitude is not.
> e.g. apt-
On 21 November 2012 22:51, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> Actually I receive lots of mails from users asking me questions like "How
> could
> I find an exhaustive list of LV2 toys currently provided by Debian?", "Does
> the
> X sequencer support LV2 plugins?". So, I think we'd do a good service to our
Hello
Just some quick notes related to this, without jumping in to the
discussion (yet?).
On 24 February 2013 01:28, John Moser wrote:
>
> Daniel Burrows debian.org> writes:
>
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>
> Note: I'm not subscribed to the list, and pulling this old thread through
> Gmane; please CC directly to me.
>
On 24 February 2013 08:56, John Moser wrote:
> Right, and that's why I proposed manipulating Apt and Dpkg such that they
> can understand and behave within a system with multiple installed versions
> managed in various places.
Thanks for clarifying so promptly.
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On 2 March 2013 00:12, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Its me again. Once again, I'm throwing myself on your mercy because
> although I like programming and packaging, I am having a horrible time
> finding my way through your web pages to adopt a package and keep it
> up to date.
>
> So far I ha
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