On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:04:06AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Nick Burkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just upgraded my sid system (i386) without > > > realising that libstdc++-pre6 is completely broken... > > > I've got an essay due in 24 hours which (was) being > > > written in lyx (which now doesn't work). > > sid=unstable - you know that, don't you? > debian stable = eternally ancient - you know that, don't you? 8) > Although currently stable is only ~ 1.5 yrs old software-wise, so it
I'm not sure where you get that from; woody was released July 20th last year, which is a little over 3/4th of a year ago, and uploads were being accepted into testing without special consideration up until pretty much a year ago today. The libreadline-java from stable, for example, was uploaded on 19th April 2002, eg. You can make claims about things like X being overly old (X 4.2 was released January last year, we're shipping X 4.1 in woody), but that's not really very meaningful when we're not shipping X 4.3 (released two months ago) even in unstable. > wasn't as bad as before woody was released, when it was ~ 2.5 years old. If you're implying this isn't a good thing, and that we should be providing current software that's bug free and reliable, you might like to consider fixing all of: Package: kdeadmin (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 185622 kdeadmin_4:3.1.1-2(m68k/unstable/thing2): fails to build from source Package: kdebase (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 184678 kdebase_4:3.1.1-1(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: non-PIC in shared lib 186419 kdebase: upgrade from woody to sid breaks kde Package: kdelibs (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 185697 kdelibs: KDE linked to obsolete libssl0.9.6 instead of 0.9.7 Package: kdemultimedia (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 181624 FTBFS: dga extension problem 188221 kdemultimedia_4:3.1.1-1(m68k/unstable/poseidon): FTBFS, missing [...] Package: kdeprint (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 142489 kdeprint: needs recommends on efax/hylafax/mgetty-fax 185843 kdeprint: library load error Package: kdm (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 181082 AltGr does not work under XFree-v3 Package: kmail (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 185773 kmail 4:2.2.2-14.23 gives relocation error: kmail: undefined [...] Package: konqueror (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 190945 konqueror: Konqueror 2 hatte noch keinen "feed the mozilla" button Package: korganizer (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 185823 korganizer: clicking To-Do checkbox eats all memory Package: kpackage (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 188575 kpackage: unable to install packages Package: ktalkd (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 147762 ktalkd: change run as user to nobody Package: libao (debian/main). Maintainer: Christopher L Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 189160 libao: FTBFS: Build-Depends on libarts-dev Unless I'm miscounting, 11 of these were filed over a month ago. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer!''
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