Re: sid

["Arno Lehmann, ITS" <al@its-lehmann.de>]

Hi Michael,

your problem report is a bit difficult to comment upon.

First, this is a debian users mailing list. I think nobody here will 
feel that they "are" Debian.

Then, you have problems with Sid. Now, Sid is the unstable development 
version of the distro. On the web page describing the different 
releases, https://www.debian.org/releases/ the authors stated very 
clearly that Sid might not work and even mentions disfunctional updates 
as an example. They also state that users of Sid should subscribe to 
debian-devel-announce. My conclusion is that problems with Sid should be 
discussed with the developers community.


And, considering that you tackled a development release, I think it 
would be useful if you provided details about the problem -- not just 
the result as in "network doesn't work anymore" but rather some 
observation of *why* -- which may be software packages that are 
essential for networking were uninstalled  during the upgrade, or 
provide binaries that do not work. Without such information it will be 
hard to work on fixes.


Also, you write

> There are something over a hundred sites and pages up, that give 
> simple logical instructions about how you install Debian and upgrade 
> to sid. Every one of those pages is currently wrong.

but this is not something the audience of this mailing can take 
responsibility for.


If you address the right audience with your observations, the problem 
you found may be fixed. Here, it's unlikely you can get better results 
than pointers into other directions or just questions of "why Sid?".


Best,


Arno