Hi list. Something I've noticed with Testing/Lenny is that packages often disappear for a short period (a few days or weeks) and then reappear. A few current examples: xmms and nvidia-glx. If you look on packages.debian.org they are in unstable and stable, but not testing. comix was also gone for a while but is back again.
I understand that packages will take a while to get from unstable to testing, but why would this process make packages disappear? This is annoying. I install desktops from Debian Testing and can't find packages. In this case I usually install the missing packages from Unstable, but this can cause problems. For example, I installed nvidia-glx from unstable on a testng box (along with the updated xorg dependancies), and then I couldn't get X to work (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg no longer asked for video card, and makes an invalid config file so X can't startup). After reinstalling X I'm now using the nv driver until nvidia-glx returns to Testing. Any suggestions? Should I be using Unstable instead of Testing for desktops? (I've had bad experiences with Unstable in the past). Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
