Re: which upgrade path from woody?

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Bill Moseley wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>  
>
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
> > > (probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package
> > > dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration of
> > > entire suites of packages there)  Please correct me if I am wrong on
> > > any of these details.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > If you use Sid, you _will_ have a broken system from time to time.
> > On Sarge, I've merely had the occasional broken package.
> >    
>
> I have had the other experience.  I've had less problems running Sid
> than Testing.  But that might just due to the (random) times I decided
> to do my dist-upgrades.
>
>  
New versions og g++, for example, break existing g++ applications until 
they're rebuilt. I recall two such breakages quite recently, one for gcc 
and one for libc.

Right now there's a thread regarding broken update procedures in sid. I 
don't know how bad it is, I've not been following the thread,


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John

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