Re: Going back to stable

[Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com>]

On Jul 15, 2006, at 5:53 AM, Dave Ewart wrote:

> On Saturday, 15.07.2006 at 01:00 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > That is not exactly supported.  Especially since there are *huge*
> > differences between stable and unstable.  Gnome has been upgraded  
> > twice,
> > XFree86 was replaced by X.org.  Those two alone would be enough to  
> > scare
> > me off.  Your best bet is to reinstall.  If you kept /home on a
> > sepearate partition from the beginning, this should be relatively
> > trivial to accomplish without losing many settings.
>
> I'd second this advice.  Re-install, don't even *try* to downgrade...

I agree as well.

Though it has been possible in the past, at the current time that  
''not exactly supported'' is at best a rather gracious euphemism.
I tried to go from testing->stable the other day with disastrous  
results.   Things really got wedged when apt-get/dpkg objected to  
removing some files shared by debian-utils and some other package  
whose name escapes me.

I gave up and reinstalled from scratch.