scribble

[Mount Kailash]

Binary package hint: scribble

See Debian bug #472377.

Fixed in Debian version scribble/1.10-2+nmu1 and in Ubuntu Natty (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/scribble/1.10-2+nmu1/+build/2003103)

The bug generates multiple lines of error messages every time I do an apt update.

Could we have a backport to maverick?

Cheers,
Peter

PS Wow, it's hard to report a simple bug in Ubuntu! I literally spent an hour trying to get the system to accept it -- even after all the login rigmarole it spits out "Constraint not satisfied", with no hint on what the constrain is. I still don't know.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: scribble (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-atom 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-atom i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 24 09:54:28 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: scribble

[Mount Kailash (pplantagenet)]

PS. I got "Constraint not satisfied" when I used a longer (and more useful) bug title:

 scribble 1.10-2 uses obsolete version specification in conflicts

So what constraint is not satisfied? I found nothing in Google, and just guessed that the string might be too long.

This is my first bug to Ubuntu -- I submit them regularly to Debian. While Ubuntu is generally more user-friendly than Debian, the bug-reporting system (in my very limited experience) is dramatically less user-friendly. In Debian. submitting a bug takes a few seconds; in Ubuntu, it took me an hour -- and the system is so complicated that there are many bugs I have not reported, since the barrier is so high. This Sunday morning, after a year or more of using Ubuntu, I decided to push through.

Simple suggestion: don't stop someone from submitting a bug because the description violates some secret constraint -- that's just not ubuntu!

Cheers,
Peter

[Andrew (andrewkvalheim)]

To allow Ubuntu users searching for the error message to find this bug report:

    warning, in file '/var/cache/apt/available' near line 742381 package 'scribble':
     `Replaces' field, reference to `scrabble':
     `<' is obsolete, use `<=' or `<<' instead
    warning, in file '/var/cache/apt/available' near line 742382 package 'scribble':
     `Conflicts' field, reference to `scrabble':
     `<' is obsolete, use `<=' or `<<' instead