Re: where does unstable appear from?
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:40:01 +0200
Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
> How about waiting a few weeks before dist-upgrading on sid? Solves
> all problems just as well.
No, it doesn't, sometimes a judicious bit of butchery is required to
clear a dependency jam. I waited for quite a while recently, when
apt-get wanted to rip out a fair number of packages which I use, and
aptitude just threw up its virtual hands and told me to do the job
myself.
Eventually I got bored with waiting, and went with apt-get, managing to
restore everything essential afterwards, because apt-get wasn't clever
enough to see the right upgrade path. Aptitude was clever enough but
not powerful enough to deal with the number of packages involved.
It turned out that all the packages were present and OK, but that the
sheer number of them which needed to be upgraded at the same time led
to some very difficult dependency webs.
--
Joe
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