Tim, This was my motivation to go to unstable . . . things are filtering down to testing too slowly, and for my primary desktop, I wanted the latest evolution. I've been very happy with unstable. I run gnome2 desktop with evolution, openoffice.org, etc.
madmac "Tim Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Warning, complete and utter Debian newbie alert] > > The package search at debian.org doesn't list evolution as being > available for testing (only 1.0.5 in stable and 1.4.5-3 in unstable), > but I seem to be able to happily > apt-get install evolution > on my testing box (which grabs the 1.0.5 version). > Unfortunately it isn't usable (depending on whether I run it in a > vncserver or via ssh+X11-forwarding, various components seem to crash > independently; the machine is headless so I haven't tried the console). > > What's going on here... does apt fall back to stable for packages that > aren't available for testing ? (Should this generally work ? Should I > file a bug report ?) > > What's the best thing to do about it ? Wait for 1.4 to propagate down > from unstable ? > > Thanks for any advice > Tim > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
