On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:59:33PM -0300, João Paulo Just wrote: > Well, as everybody know, some packages go to 'stable' and leave > 'testing', for example, xine-ui. > This week, was the time for k3b, kaffeine and others. The point is: I'm > using 'testing'. If I do 'apt-get dist-upgrade', k3b and kaffeine will > be removed (they are not in 'testing' anymore). > What's the best way to get them back? I was thinking about using k3b and > kaffeine from 'unstable', but I'm not sure if it is a good idea. You may want to check first *why* the packages have been removed from testing: $ grep-excuses kaffeine kaffeine (- to 0.7.1-1.2) Maintainer: Zack Cerza 20 days old (needed 10 days) Ignoring high urgency setting for NEW package kaffeine (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (2 > 0) Not considered $ $ grep-excuses k3b k3b (- to 0.12.7-1) Maintainer: Jean-Michel Kelbert Too young, only 2 of 10 days old Ignoring high urgency setting for NEW package out of date on mips: k3b, k3blibs, k3blibs-dev (from 0.12.5-1) out of date on mipsel: k3b, k3blibs, k3blibs-dev (from 0.12.5-1) k3b (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (1 > 0) Not considered Depends: k3b gcc-4.0 (not considered) $ You *can* upgrade to the versions in unstable and use them together with the KDE currently in testing, but both of these packages are RC-buggy -- so it's questionable whether it would do you any good to install them. http://bugs.debian.org/336306 http://bugs.debian.org/328738 http://bugs.debian.org/335577 > Can I "dist-upgrade" without removing them? If you need these packages to be installed in the working versions that were previously available in testing, then the only real option under these circumstances is to *not* dist-upgrade to the new KDE. You can do this either by using apt-get upgrade instead of apt-get dist-upgrade, or by putting these packages on hold before dist-upgrading. If you've already dist-upgraded, your only option is to try to use the versions from unstable, because downgrades aren't supported. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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