Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: 0.14 running on debian unstable

[Søren Boll Overgaard]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 03:59, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
wrote:
> On Fri, 23 May 2003 07:58:17 +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:
> 
> > It has been suggested that I move back to libgnet1.1.x, which is not
> > immediately feasible in Debian unstable, since the development part of
> > that version of the gnet library is no longer available. I have, until
> > this is resolved, made the package available via my own apt respository
> > at:
> > 
> > deb http://people.debian.org/~boll sid main
> 
>       Could you advertise this more widely, say in the bug reports themselves?

Hopefully it will be resolved soon. The older version of libgnet
required to build pan is currently sitting in the upload queue, waiting
to get approved.

>       If you had done so, you would have saved lots of people lots of hassle.

I've advertised in on this mailing list, and assumed that that would
suffice.

> 
>       Ideally you would be able to retract pan 0.14 from unstable, as 
> it is basically useless.  I don't know if Debian has such a retraction
> possibility?

It doesn't. And that wouldn't be a solution either, since the problem is
with libgnet being upgraded in Unstable, rendering pan unbuildable in
current Debian Unstable.

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