Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200
Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe:
> Hi Joe,
>
> yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing,
> which is close to unstable.
>
> The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at
> all, but the deinstallation of packages which are still usefull for
> people without a substitute or a substitude with the same ease as the
> uninstalled package.
>
> Think of people, they do an upgrade after 2 years (or earlier) and
> their applications are gone. Might be ok for experienced people (who
> are experienced in the console), but this is not ok for people, who
> NEED graphical, easy to use tools.
>
> There are more than you expect.
>
> No offence. :)
>
And none taken. Yes, I've lost one or two applications over the years
which I was actively using. But it is rare for this to happen without a
good substitute (in someone's opinion) being available.
But it does happen. I use Remmina for MS remote desktop, but there was
a time when that was very buggy, and the previous best RDP software had
been withdrawn. I carried on using the latter as long as I could, by
which time Remmina was useable. Alarm Clock was the most recent
application I was using which was withdrawn. It's a bit more of a
problem when it's a driver for proprietary hardware, which
manufacturers often do not provide for Linux, and only one person/group
was making an OS version, more or less as a hobby.
--
Joe
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