Re: safe to upgrade sid?
Well, there is a certain logic to it. Sid is explicitly not intended for
"production use" (although many, including myself, get away with it without
too man problems). So, if given the choice between these two options:
- Upgrade package XYZ
- Switch to gcc 4
- Recompile/debug package XYZ under gcc 4
- Switch to Xorg
- Recompile/debug package XYZ for Xorg
-or-
- Switch to gcc 4
- Switch to Xorg
- Recompile/debug package XYZ for Xorg and gcc 4
It makes perfect sense that the Debian maintainers would go with the option
that means less work for them but ends up in the same place in the end. The
whole point of Sid is that they make that decision rather than the other way
around. That's what "unstable" means in practice: Unsupported, bugs will get
fixed when convenient for the maintainer, not when convenient for the user.
On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:37 pm, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> On Saturday 16 July 2005 05:11, Josh Metzler wrote:
> > There is also the gcc 4.0 transition going on and the xfree86 -> x.org
> > transition. The current plan is that qt3 and then kde 3.4 will be
> > uploaded once x.org has built on all architectures. I plan to wait on
> > upgrading anything x or kde related until kde 3.4 is available, assuming
> > that that will indicate the transitions that affect me will be made.
> > You may want to do the same.
>
> It is rather disturbing, that errors in libraries in unstable is not
> prioritized any higher than the ongoing transitions.
>
> You can of course upgrade, but you'll need to manually install the old
> kdelibs-packages (-6.1). They'll be upgraded next time too, AFAIK.
>
> Annoying. But then again, that's ``unstable'' for you.
>
> Regards, Anders Breindahl.
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