Re: dpkg: Update failures

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=FCller?= <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> wrote:
>Nate Amsden wrote:
>> I hate to say it but the problems your having were caused by you
>> wanting to use knowingly unstable program versions. you probably
>> should of asked the list before attempting what you did as some
>> people may of been able to warn you ahead of time what you were
>> getting into.
>
>Huh?
>
>Sure, using bleading edge software increses the chances of bugs, but to just 
>blatantly state that that's the reason someone is having problems is a bit 
>much.

But it's true. Trying to upgrade from stable to unstable with raw dpkg
(essentially what he was trying) is possible, but only if you know what
you're doing. It's not a bug as such, but we could have warned him about
it in advance.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]