Re: Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?
Incoming from Jon Dowland:
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 07:39:25 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater
> <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Right. You should know what you are doing to run sid and, ideally, be
> > subscribed to at least debian-devel - sid can be dynamically unstable
> > on very rare occasions.
>
> In the last 6 months I got tired of breakages - albeit minor ones -
> which I suffered on an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade basis. It
> wasn't so much of a problem when my hobby was basically `running
> debian' as appose to `using debian' - but once I started writing my
Ack.
> Mind you right now things are just as broken. I succumed to an upgrade
> in order to provide more feedback on an X bug (oh, helpful me) as I
> was too lazy to figure out how to make aptitude simply upgrade any
> packages that were, or depended on, the source package xfree86. The
> result was I caned my nvidia drivers :(
Isn't that a prime case for pinning?
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