I think it is becoming overstated. "Unstable" means changing, not the usual meaning that the software is unstable and thus unusable. I used to do things answering yes, yes, etc. Never really had a big problem with it. I now do a test run first and find out that stuff will be removed so skip the offenders. Apt-listbugs warns me of other stuff to wait on. Sid is usually just fine.
This said, however, the word "unstable" is no pass to post packages that doom someone's box. A few weeks ago, I had that xorg ABI problem. Once I got xorg going again by futsing around with paths in my xorg.conf (no way the packager's version due to all the ATI mach64 DRI business, now no longer relevant, using Nvidia), there were no fonts showing in KDE. All in all however, the box still worked and with some trouble got snapshots through the wounded KDE (using Opera which showed some text) and with a perfectly OK command line console finally installed the xorg package that instantly fixed it a all day later. But this is, as said, not for everyone. We owe it to our community to exercise elemental care in posting upgrades. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
