Debian Bug report logs - #28232
A bunch of X packages just vanished!

Package: xbase; Maintainer for xbase is (unknown);

Reported by: Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu

Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:48:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#28232; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu
To: bugs@debian.org
Subject: A bunch of X packages just vanished!
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.30
Severity: Important

  I hope this is a real bug and not something dumb I'm doing.

  I just downloaded the latest package file and discovered that a
number of packages--including xdm, xterm, and several other X
programs--were apparently updated.  The unusual thing is that they
magically vanished from the "installed" list and are listed as being
completely NEW packages.  The old packages seem to have migrated to
/dev/null (figuratively).  Am I safe to install these 'new' packages
without having junk files left behind from the older packages--and
(more importantly) why did this happen?  It seems to me like dpkg and
apt-get shouldn't allow packages to vanish in a puff of smoke like
that... (which is why I'm reporting it as related to dpkg).

  I'm also running the latest apt-get, could this be a bug in that?

  A large number of files are also correctly marked as being updated
  (libc6, libstdc++, eterm, ....)

  Daniel Burrows



Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#28232; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 28232@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu, 28232@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#28232: A bunch of X packages just vanished!
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:32:26 +0100
Since you last updated, the X packages were split, so that xdm and xterm,
etc. are now seperate packages.  Previously, they were incorporated into the
main X packages - that's why they're listed as new - because they are new,
are seperate entities.

If this explanation satisfies you, close the bug :-)

Jules

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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#28232; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at 28232@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
To: Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu, 28232@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#28232: A bunch of X packages just vanished!
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:28:55 +0200 (CEST)
It's the other way around.  These packages never existed before; they
were split off from xbase.  There is no bug.

Richard Braakman


Severity set to `normal'. Request was from "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `general'. Request was from "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #24 received at 28232-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
To: 28232-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: no bug, no bug closing cabal, same diff
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:10:28 -0700
blah, this is already handled by the slink release documentation.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"Hacking... is a completely creepy thing to do." -- US Department Of Justice


Bug reassigned from package `general' to `xbase'. Request was from "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


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