On 9/6/2015 1:19 PM, Joe wrote:
Don't know how affected testing is by which transitions, but the ones the were causingOn Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:58:19 +0200 Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> wrote:I suspect it will be more than a few days. Unstable has been disrupted for weeks, and aptitude full-upgrade still shrugs and says 'I can't do it, do you want to have a try?' There are more than 150 packages stuck at the moment, on a system with just over 4000 installed. Apt-get dist-upgrade wants to pull about seventy packages, but some are libraries which will be replaced by new versions. Gimp and gnome-mplayer are in the list, which I'm not willing to give up yet. If I get bored, I might mess around with synaptic to see if I can upgrade a few, but clearly there is still significant trouble.gnome-mplayer is removed from testing and unstable. So I wouldn't wait to long.OK, thanks. I would hope not Gimp also...
me grief in unstable were taglib, clucene, ffmpeg-libav, and opencv.I expect flac, libmusicbrainz5, and libtorrent-rasterbar were adding to the confusion as
well. https://release.debian.org/transitions/I did uninstall ktorrent since I have not been using it anyway and I was finally able to get
everything up to date without removing anything I care about keeping.I did have to work at it to find combinations that would not cause a big list of removals.
I use Synaptic. First using the default upgrade to get the low hanging fruit. Then making selections from the things that remain. Then going through the list of obsolete packages and selecting packages to purge. If selecting something to purge gives me a list of changes that includes something I want to keep that has a newer version available, and the list of those things is reasonably small, then I will give the OK for that, then switch to 'Custome Filter --> Marked Changes' then change the selection for the things I want to keep
to upgrade in order to see what else that triggers. Later, Seeker