Re: Increasing number of conflicts
On Tue, Apr 20 at 16:19, B. Alexander penned:
> It's more of a packaging issue. For instance, there have been
> several ABI changes, the most recent of which was the transition
> from kde3 to kde4. Packages getting left along the way.
>
> Another thing is packages whcih seem to have gotten confused by
> versions:
>
> luatex: Conflicts: texlive-base-bin (< 2008) but 2007.dfsg.2-8 is
> installed.
> python-kde4: Depends: python-sip4 (>= <none>) but
> 4.10.2-1 is to be installed.
This might be a little painful for the KDE package, but I wonder what
would happen if you uninstalled them and then reinstalled them.
I'll admit, I've sometimes left packages on "hold" for months or even
a year before trying to figure it out. Unless I specifically need a
feature available in the latest version of a package, I just let
things "work themselves out." This may not be an acceptable approach
for everyone ... personally I find it better than the alternatives,
which are
1) Run stable and have uniformly old packages (although I have a vague
notion that stable versions are being released more often now than
they used to be)
2) Run testing, which is really more an integration environment than a
distribution - although I've just checked the rules, and again they
seem to be much more friendly than I remember them. I remembered
something like two weeks of clean living before a new version could
make it to testing, but either I remember wrong or things have
changed:
http://www.debian.org/devel/testing
Hrm. Thanks for starting this discussion. It seems that my
understanding of the distributions is (not|no longer) valid, and I need
to do some reading.
--
monique
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