Re: [Sheflug] Another stupid Debian Q.

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Alex Hudson (home [at] alexhudson.com) wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:47:10PM +0100, Richard Lowe wrote:
> > I think amaya, and maybe a very early mozilla are on the 2.2r0 cds.
> 
> I think M18 made it in. Nutscrape is in non-free. 
> 
> > > Ximian are lying - their apt-get install method for Gnome seems to be
> > > broken - something I have no idea how to get around (yet) - hints please!
> > 
> > Either dont use Ximian GNOME, or wait for Ximian to fix it :)
> 
> task-helix-desktop (or whatever it is) has been broken since 1.4 and remains
> broken, to the best of my knowledge. I don't know if they're going to fix
> it. RedCarpet is available for Debian, but segfaults on my system :( So, no
> new Ximian for Alex (at least, not for a while yet). 
> 
> > I've heard about more problems in woody, than I have in sid.
> > Not sure if its just that more people use woody though.
> > (and it has to be said, that the things that do go wrong with sid, tend
> > to be fairly important, glibc, dpkg et al.) :)
> 
> Any problem in woody is also a problem in sid, but not all problems in sid
> are problems in woody, so I would imagine it is because more people use
> woody :) 

Not necessarily true.
A lot of the problems people mentioned when they first brought testing
in, was with packages that were stable enough to go from unstable,
into testing, but where dependancies weren't.

But I think most were just teething problems.
The main problem people had with testing when it was first introduced
were the people who had lines in their sources.list saying 'woody'
instead of 'unstable' and suddenly found apt trying to downgrade most of
their system :)



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