Re: time_t transitions in testing

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

mick.crane wrote:
...
> Eeeek "725 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see 
> them"

  that was about where i was at as i'd been holding firefox
from unstable due to it wanting to remove a lot of Mate
packages without replacing them.

  however last night, like you, i first updated to the newest
kernel and headers and then picked groups of packages that
worked to do it in smaller chunks.  so i finally ended up with
Mate packages that were being replaced but not leaving me 
without a working desktop.

  the other reason for holding off so long was that i didn't
have enough of a block of time just in case something went 
wrong, but last night i did.  i needed to download nearly 1G
of packages and my line isnt super fast so that took some
time just waiting for chunks to come down the pipe.


> It seemed to be that "apt upgrade" installed a few of them, there was a 
> message something wouldn't be installed because there were no headers so 
> after getting the linux-headers for the kernel and rebooting apt 
> installed the rest.
> mick

  this morning so far all has been well and basically it
all is looking as it should.

  my normal morning routing is to update and upgrade if
there is anything waiting, and today is the first time i'm
back to "normal" routine in some weeks so it is nice to
have a clear update list again.  :)


  songbird