Re: What's going on with "testing"?
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:58:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:57:33PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
> > On 21 May 2003 05:40:53 -0500
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> smip
> >
> > Thanks. So if I do this for a held-back package and get something like -
> >
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
> > kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
> > E: Sorry, broken packages
> >
> I also had this problem with a further message that the difficulty might
> be packages that had been held back. I solved it by purging kde as I
> prefer icewm anyway; kde has too many bells and whistles I never use.
>
> As to the comment that us pedestrians should stick to stable, there were
> times when a package I needed was not yet available in stable so I have
> had one computer running testing for over a year now and have run
> apt-get dist-upgrade regularly. It was only on May 9th of this year
> that the above problem appeared. Until then apt-get dist-upgrade ran
> with never a hitch.
>
Yes, thats about when this all started to unravel for me (4 computers)
also.
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