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Re: KDE Frameworks 5.25: Be careful with dist-upgrade



Am Freitag, 19. August 2016, 14:09:59 CEST schrieb Diederik de Haas:
> On vrijdag 19 augustus 2016 13:19:23 CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > You most definately do not like this, so watch out carefully on
> > dist-upgrade.
> > ...
> > From what I gathered from aptitude its just the state of a partially
> > uploaded  KF5 5.25 in unstable, so waiting seems to be the best option.
> > However, I will try with a partial upgrade, instead of dist-upgrade. Okay,
> > and this holds almost all of KF 5.25 back.
> 
> It always surprises me that ppl use dist-upgrade/full-upgrade by default.
> There seems to be some 'rule' that when on sid you should do a dist-upgrade,
> but I never understood why.

Well for some time I used upgrade, then dist-upgrade, but often that was two 
steps instead of one, as a dist-upgrade would just have been fine, so I 
reversed it. I try dist-upgrade and carefully check what it would do… just 
this one time I didn´t. I think the output was too large and the removes were 
already out of the screen completely. I usually start the dist-upgrade and 
then head elsewhere, then look back to look at the solution apt proposes. 
Today I just didn´t scroll back.

> And when I do that now, 'cause I'm curious, I can see that the KF5 packages
> now have a condition in them to avoid the situation/bugs we had earlier due
> to a mix of KF 5.22 and 5.23.
> Thanks Maxy :-D

Yeah, I do think this makes sense.

I don´t complain. Its on my own to carefully check dist-upgrade proposals, 
especially on a Debian Sid machine, and in case I don´t, I am the one 
responsible for fixing things up :).

Thanks,
-- 
Martin


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