Status of Testing

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

Can someone fill me in on the status of Testing -- I have not updated my
Testing/Unstable machine for a while (IIRC the glibc issue??).

On my desktop and development machines I have a mix of testing and
unstable packages.  I've needed the unstable versions of a few packages
for my hardware or for features I'm working with.

I'm also wondering if I should just upgrade to unstable.  The other day I
had to remove my X server (xserver-xfree86 and xserver-common) and
reinstall to get a new matrox G550 video card to work correctly.  Now
some fonts in Galeon/Mozilla are once again ugly, plus (the big problem)
is both Galeon and Mozilla are crashing a lot.

I do seem to have some conflicts once in a while, and I'm wondering if my
mix of testing and unstable isn't a source of trouble, and things might
work better if I just track unstable and be prepared for a few (hopefully
short lived) broken packages.

Any recommendations?


BTW -- here's my current browsers that are crashing:

ii  mozilla-browse 1.2.1-9        Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser
rc  mozilla-mailne 1.2.1-9        Mozilla Web Browser - mail and news support
ii  mozilla-psm    1.2.1-9        Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Mana
ii  mozilla-xft    1.2.1-9        Mozilla Web Browser - Xft support files
ii  galeon         1.2.7-6        Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look an
ii  galeon-common  1.2.7-6        Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look an



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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org