Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:40:25AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
>
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>>>>  but at the same time i read the release notes for the new
>>>>  Ubuntu beta, and its really nice. I *want* Gnome 2.24 (the auto
>>>
>>>  Unstable is at GNOME v2.22.5
>
> I said:
>
>>
>> Unstable (or Sid) has been at 2.23 for a short while, and is already  
>> transitioning to 2.24.

????

> Let me clarify this a bit:
>
> On my system, if one pulls down the About box for GNOME, it says 2.22.  
> However, if one looks at the files installed, quite a few of them are at  
> 2.23.  A few have started trickling in that are at 2.24.  So it is fair  
> to say that GNOME is in the middle of a transition.  I would like it if  
> it happened a bit faster, but I have no major complaints.

I think you must have some complicated apt line...  (maybe with some
experimental or external sites)

I do not see 2.24 in my sid box.  Source Package gnome-desktop:

    * sarge (x11): 2.8.3-2
      Binary packages: gnome-about, gnome-desktop-data, libgnome-desktop-2, libgnome-desktop-dev
    * etch (x11): 2.14.3-2
      Binary packages: gnome-about, gnome-desktop-data, libgnome-desktop-2, libgnome-desktop-dev
    * etch-m68k (x11): 2.14.3-2
      Binary packages: gnome-about, gnome-desktop-data, libgnome-desktop-2, libgnome-desktop-dev
    * lenny (x11): 2.22.3-2
      Binary packages: gnome-about, gnome-desktop-data, libgnome-desktop-2, libgnome-desktop-dev
    * sid (x11): 2.22.3-2
      Binary packages: gnome-about, gnome-desktop-data, libgnome-desktop-2, libgnome-desktop-dev


We at Debian are in freeze mode.  So we do not update packages randomly
in unstable.  Our focus is next release.  This is how Debian works.

Osamu