Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:12:39PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Colin Watson (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 02:24:39AM +0100): > > In your place, I would go for either stable plus backported bits and > > pieces or unstable, depending on the application. I think running mixed > > systems is

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-14 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Hugh Saunders (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 01:25:45AM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:54:38PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > I don't think I want to do this ;> > > > ># sudo apt-get -u install apt=0.5.8 > >Reading Package Lists... Done > >Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:08:01PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Hugh Saunders (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 01:25:45AM +0100): > > erm, why not just run unstable?? mixed stable/testing/unstable looks > > like a mess to me and probably doesnt help with getting security fixes > > for stuff e

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 02:24:39AM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:08:01PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Hugh Saunders (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 01:25:45AM +0100): > > > erm, why not just run unstable?? mixed stable/testing/unstable looks > > > like a mess t

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:12:39PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > And, this is *NOT* valid: > >deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates contrib main non-free > > Please, correct my misunderstandings, Colin; but, what I understand from > your message above is that, regardless of an

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:54:38PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > I don't think I want to do this ;> > ># sudo apt-get -u install apt=0.5.8 >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >The following packages will be REMOVED: > apt-utils aptitude synapt

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Chris Metzler (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:05:25PM -0400): > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:54:38 -0500 > "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [ much snipping ] > > > > I do not want to do without apt-utils, aptitude, and synaptic . . . > > > > What else am I missing?

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:54:38 -0500 "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ much snipping ] > > I do not want to do without apt-utils, aptitude, and synaptic . . . > > What else am I missing? Upgrading those to unstable as well? -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 09:03:03PM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:06:13PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:19:34PM +0100): > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > Worse, instal

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Yes, I have a mixed system, preferring to stay with stable; but, I need certain packages from testing and unstable . . . However, it is python-apt that has the problem with the non-existent libapt packages. Nevertheless, I have stable, testing and unstable in sources.list,

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:06:13PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:19:34PM +0100): > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > Worse, installing apt-listchanges depends on python-apt, which -- in > > > turn -- dep

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:19:34PM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 03:16:03PM +0100): > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > > > Sometimes when ther

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 03:16:03PM +0100): > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > > Sometimes when there is a new version (not upstream version, internal > > > debian version o

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 03:16:03PM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > Sometimes when there is a new version (not upstream version, internal > > debian version only) i would like to know about the changes. > > > > Is there any other way

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:00:48PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > Sometimes when there is a new version (not upstream version, internal > debian version only) i would like to know about the changes. > > Is there any other way to view debian/changelog than to download the > source package? Have you