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[Vincenzo Di Massa]

Alle 23:49, domenica 20 febbraio 2005, Brandon Hale ha scritto:
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 23:22 +0100, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
> >Alle 22:44, domenica 20 febbraio 2005, Mary Gardiner ha scritto:
> >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote:
> >> > Hello everybody...
> >> >
> >> > The currently available synaptic package is not able to mange
> >> > repositories. If you use the menu Settings-> Repositories you are not
> >> > given the repositories editing dialog.
> >>
> >> Looks like this has been filed:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6767
> >>
> >> You should add more details to the bug if you have them.
> >>
> >> -Mary
> >
> >No, I have not more details :-(
> >Sorry I did not check bug tracker.
> >
> >When a package gets broken, waht does ubuntu managers do?
> >a) revert the package to an older working version
> >b) wait untill there is a bugfix release
> >c) ....
>
> The correct answer was:
>
> d) find or create a patch to solve the issue and upload a new revision
> of the package.
>
> b could also sometimes the case, if the maintainer knows that a bugfix
> release is available soon.

I know my previous question can sound sarcastic, but it was not. I'd really 
like know how things work becouse I am developing software that I hope will 
be accepted into debian/ubunto when it's done. I'm totally new to debian like 
distros...

Regards Vincenzo

>
> HTH,
> Brandon Hale