On Tue, Apr 20 at 16:19, B. Alexander penned: > It's more of a packaging issue. For instance, there have been > several ABI changes, the most recent of which was the transition > from kde3 to kde4. Packages getting left along the way. > > Another thing is packages whcih seem to have gotten confused by > versions: > > luatex: Conflicts: texlive-base-bin (< 2008) but 2007.dfsg.2-8 is > installed. > python-kde4: Depends: python-sip4 (>= <none>) but > 4.10.2-1 is to be installed.
This might be a little painful for the KDE package, but I wonder what would happen if you uninstalled them and then reinstalled them. I'll admit, I've sometimes left packages on "hold" for months or even a year before trying to figure it out. Unless I specifically need a feature available in the latest version of a package, I just let things "work themselves out." This may not be an acceptable approach for everyone ... personally I find it better than the alternatives, which are 1) Run stable and have uniformly old packages (although I have a vague notion that stable versions are being released more often now than they used to be) 2) Run testing, which is really more an integration environment than a distribution - although I've just checked the rules, and again they seem to be much more friendly than I remember them. I remembered something like two weeks of clean living before a new version could make it to testing, but either I remember wrong or things have changed: http://www.debian.org/devel/testing Hrm. Thanks for starting this discussion. It seems that my understanding of the distributions is (not|no longer) valid, and I need to do some reading. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100420231829.gi30...@mail.bounceswoosh.org
