Re: what should I do before dist-upgrade to unstable

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Alvaro wrote:

> Hi list.
>
> I have been using debian/testing for a year long. I would like to have
> the leatest software (eg. latest kde). Therefore, I want to update to
> unstable. I read somewhere that unstable is as stable as any other
> distributions (latest suse)
>
> I know I have to do:
> edit source.list
>
> aptitude upgrade
> aptitude dist-upgrade
>  
The above commands are sufficient. You might also consider installing 
apt-listbugs, apt-listchanges.

IMHO, Sid is in pretty bad shape right now with all the KDE transition, 
C++ ABI transition, gcc4 transition. I would not move from testing to 
sid at the present moment unless you are ready to face some hiccups on 
the way.

raju

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