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Re: Best advice for users ?



Denis writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I hope I may post this kind of message here (it's a user point
> of view) I don't know this list, I've just read a few threads
> up to now.
> 
> Here, we're a bunch of Debian-Python users and we are a bit
> lost with the debian upgrade. What would be your best advice in
> our situation :
> 
> we want to use Python >2.1 because of some different reasons
> among which the need to use Zope 2.4

    >2.1 or >= 2.1 ?

> - on some development machines, we've installed the new
>   versions from the different tgz in /usr/local
>   
> - on our production server, we still use Python 1.5 with Zope
>   2.3 (Prudence, prudence, ...)

don't upgrade your production server. the conversion happens
in _unstable_ 

> - on a test machine, I tried to upgrade through dselect and
>   that lead to a big bang with all the dependencies. Old
>   libraries have disappeared and new ones won't install.
> 
> Could someone of you gently tell us what's the best bet from
> the user point of view ?

As a user, stay away from unstable the next week (or maybe the next
two weeks) and come back, when the conversion is done.

	Matthias



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