On 31/10/2009 11:57, Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:49:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote:Why does anything have to be wrong? It just means that you'll have to wait to upgrade the core packages until newer versions of the optional packages, compatible with the new core packages, become available. I assume that you're running testing or unstable? This sort of thing is not uncommon with those flavors, IIUC.Expected, even. That's why they're *called* "testing" (as in, "it's not fully-tested yet, so it may break") and "unstable" (as in, "it's not stable").
actually it's unstable as we only tested it very little and sometimes packages don't go in all at the same time and you have to wait a bit, but it will be sorted in a couple of days. It's mostly upstream stable packages though except for software that's in beta in the first place.
Testing is as in it's already been tested for several weeks in unstable and found to be stable enough but another version of stable is not due for a couple of years.
For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which.Stable is as in it's been tested for a year, will not change for the next couple of years and you can put it on a server that you will not turn off for the next several months not to mention update anything other than security updates.