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RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1



On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:46, Michael Kahle wrote:
> James Strandboge wrote:
> >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:28, Michael Kahle wrote:
> >>>Did you have the gnome2.2 woody backport installed?
> >> 
> >> Yes I did.  I was runny woody.  I then installed the backport at a 
> >> later date.  I the decided to switch to testing.
> >> 
> >Glad dselect helped.  It is not recommended to go from the backport 
> >to testing, but instead the backport to sid.  The reason being is 
> >that much of the backport is much farther ahead of testing.
> >
> >I did correct a dependency issue with libxrender1.1 (which is from 
> >the backport) and libxrender1.  You won't be able to install 
> >libxrender1 now without removing libxrender1.1.  This should help 
> >people attempting what you did.
> 
> I apologize.  I went from stable to unstable (sid).  I hope that my 
> slip did not prompt the propagation of a change that was unnecessary 
> or worse wrong!

Not at all.  You having the problem clearly showed it needed to be
done.  When I initially packaged libxrender1.1, there was no such
libxrender1 in sid.  I needed to account for it.

Jamie

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