Re: Xorg upgrade troubles
On Thursday 13 April 2006 6:36 am, Žáček Kryštof wrote:
> look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than
> unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g. K3b was
> absent from testing for many months!)). SID appears to be the best choice for
> Debian desktop (regardless to what official policy states) and as such it is
> chosen by many.
Indeed I have been running Sid here for about two years. Works a treat.
> Yes, I am ready do deal with minor breakages. However, X not starting, KDE
> ot starting ... this is not a minor problem but a fatal show stopper. This proves
> lack of software quality testing in the Debian release model. In my opinion the
> released Xorg 7 package belongs still to experimental.
One life saver if you run Sid is apt-listbugs. Assuming there has been a serious
bug reported against it, it will list it and prompt you if you want to upgrade
anyway.
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