Re: [Fink-users] Unable to install slrn

[Dave M. <mus...@gm...>]

I've since installed slrn via DarwinPorts, and so I'm functional. As
for whether or not you should undo what you've done: guess that's up
to you and the team, but it would seem to me that having a package in
"stable" that is known not to install is a bad idea...?

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Daniel Macks <dm...@ne...> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:04:35AM +0200, Max Horn wrote:
>>
>> Am 05.04.2009 um 04:19 schrieb Alexander Hansen:
>>
>> > Dave Musicant wrote:
>> >> Hi  -
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to install slrn on stable, under OS X 10.4. I'm getting
>> >> the
>> >> following error:
>> >>
>> >> Can't resolve dependency "slang2-shlibs" for package
>> >> "slrn-0.9.9-1" (no
>> >> matching packages/versions found)
>> >> Exiting with failure.
>> >>
>> >> I see that slang2 is only in unstable, which I guess is the
>> >> problem...
>> >> but slrn is in stable, so it should install
>> >>
>> >> Any thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Dave Musicant
>> >>
>> > I'll cc the maintainer (same for both slang2 and slrn).  He'd be the
>> > one
>> > who needs to fix the issue (presumably by bringing slang2 over to
>> > stable).
>>
>> Sorry for not reacting to this earlier.
>>
>>
>> Anyway: No, I don't think I am the one who needs to fix the issue, and
>> don't feel responsible. According to the CVS logs, it was Daniel Macks
>> who moved the newer slrn to stable on 2009/03/19.
>>
>> Right now, I can't find any notice about this in my inbox either,
>> despite the very explicit disclaimer in all of my .info files :-(. So,
>> I'll wait now to hear what Daniel has to say.
>
> Well damn, didn't mean to actually commit that one along with a sweep
> of unmaintained and gnome stuff:( Sorry! You want I should undo it?
>
> FWIW, new slrn and its deps have long worked well on my ppc machines.
>
> dan
>
> --
> Daniel Macks
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