A simple pkg upgrade of the desktop and the result is an unusable system
without all important components.
What's wrong with package repositories?
I intentionally use quarterly to avoid frequent breakage seen in the
latest. Now I've run the pkg upgrade on KDE5 Plasma desktop (on 13.3
amd64) and the result is that the pkg upgrade uninstalled all my
important stuff like Firefox, Thunderbird, Ardour, Gimp, Telegram,
Audacity, Audacious, Pidgin etc. In short, everything I use on a daily
basis. Finally, pkg autoremove offers me to delete 520 more packages!
Isn't the quarterly branch supposed to be the stable one, for users who
don't need the hottest new stuff, but mainly want to avoid similar
breakages?
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'ImageMagick7' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'ardour' have been found
in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'audacious-plugins' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'audacity' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'dolphin-plugins' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'falkon' have been found
in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'firefox' have been found
in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp' have been found in
the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-beautify-plugin'
have been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-lensfun-plugin'
have been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-lqr-plugin' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gimp-refocus-plugin'
have been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'kde5' have been found in
the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin' have been found
in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-encryption' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-fetion' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-hotkeys' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-icyque' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-libnotify' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-manualsize' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-otr' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-skypeweb' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'pidgin-window_merge'
have been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'purple-googlechat' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'purple-hangouts' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'remmina-lite' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'smplayer' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'telegram-desktop' have
been found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'thunderbird' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'vlc' have been found in
the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'wireshark' have been
found in the repositories
pkg: No packages available to install matching 'xsane' have been found
in the repositories
Given that the quarterly is in the middle of its lifetime, it cannot be
some transient breakage after branch creation. Are the quarterly
branches / packages abandoned?
Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman
