On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:25:16PM -0500, Prasenjit Kapat wrote: > Ok, in light of all these, when and how should a user know whether or > not to dist-upgrade ? By reading the output of "aptitude dist-upgrade" instead of blindly hitting "enter"? > But what I could not understand is *why* was the so-called working version > of k3b/kaffine removed ? Because all packages that depend on C++ libraries and are built with g++-3.3 are *also* RC-buggy, in that they can't be rebuilt from source using the current toolchain. We can't afford to postpone the C++ ABI transition indefinitely waiting for a handful of optional packages that don't yet have working g++-4.0 versions. In spite of the fact that lots of people would probably miss it if we released etch without k3b, dropping k3b and kaffeine from testing and letting the rest of KDE in brings us closer to a releasable state again. -- 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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