[Remind-Fans] debian upgrade and remind no longer works

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:27 PM, R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca> wrote:
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>  Allegedly, on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 07:01:57AM -0400, Rick Pasotto stated:
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> > Yesterday my debian system upgraded(?) remind to version 03.01.04-1
>  > and now nothing works. 'remind -g' gives a usage error and tkremind
>  > doesn't exist.
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>  > What happened?
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>  Debian stable here is running version 03.00.24-4, so it appears you are
>  running a, er, 'non-stable' version of Debian ;-)
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>  Maybe you should consider filing a bug, or contacting the Debian
>  maintainer, or some such?

I bugged the maintainer a couple months back, mentioning that there
were vastly newer versions of remind available.  The maintainer
indicated he was working on this; apparently it entered "testing" this
week, which is pretty apropos.

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