Re: I screwed up my apt/dpkg system

2000-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Scott Bronson wrote: > This message does belong on debian-user, but it's certainly not Progeny's > fault. debconf breaks under Perl 5.6. And a few Woody packages are > beginning to require 5.6... No, perl 5.6 is simply a broken package. > > Why the heck isn't debconf written in C? This happen

Re: I screwed up my apt/dpkg system

2000-12-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 08:23:12PM -0800, Scott Bronson wrote: > > Why the heck isn't debconf written in C? This happens to me ALL the > time (well, every other month or so). Something as fundamental as > debconf really should not have so many dependencies. > See the debian-boot list where the

Re: I screwed up my apt/dpkg system

2000-12-14 Thread Scott Bronson
> Previously Mehrdad Oveisi wrote: > > My system is half-woody as I upgraded to Progeny; everything went fine. > > I'm tempted to say that if you switch to progeny and things break > you should go to progeny for support. This definitely does not > belong on debian-dpkg, but debian-user. This mess