Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Andrei, thank you. On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 13:19 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I seems to me like your intention is to run stable, but with select > packages from either backports or testing/sid as needed. Correct. Cliffhanger: I guess I'll continue maintaining my Debian install on Monday.

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 mar 14, 13:19:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Further on you should check your system for packages installed that do > *not* come from wheezy (apt-showversions or aptitude can do that) and That's 'apt-show-versions' of course, shouldn't have relied on my memory. Kind regards, Andrei -

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 mar 14, 07:06:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS: JFTR: > > root@debi386:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences > # /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: release n=wheezy > Pin-Priority: 400 What's the point of this (considering that the default priority for it would be 500)? > Package: * > Pin

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 07:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 07:02 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > root@debi386:~# apt-cache policy > > I run apt-cache policy when not booted to Debian, but after a > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/debi386 > > Perhaps th

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 07:02 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > root@debi386:~# apt-cache policy I run apt-cache policy when not booted to Debian, but after a [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/debi386 Perhaps this does give another output? For the original upgrade I canceled, us

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: JFTR: root@debi386:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences # /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release n=wheezy Pin-Priority: 400 Package: * Pin: release n=wheezy-backports Pin-Priority: 300 Package: * Pin: release n=jessie Pin-Priority: 200 Package: * Pin: release n=sid Pin-Priority: 100 root@debi

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 07:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Could you please post the output of 'apt-cache policy' root@debi386:~# apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid/non-free Translation-en 500 http://ftp.de.debian

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 mar 14, 23:20:58, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > root@debi386:~# apt-get dist-upgrade ... > > 51 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 44 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > > Need to get 37.9 MB of archives. > > After this operation, 13.7 MB disk space will be freed. > > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> No Wayland here, OTOH no packages have been kept back when I used Synaptic in > the morning. My apologies, those two packages _always_ were kept back: > > The following packages have been kept back: > > gcc-4.8-base libgfortran3 So I excluded them ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: No apt-get update now: In the morning I used Synaptic, the result was different to the apt-get upgrade I'm running now: > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/debi386 > Spawning container debi386 on /mnt/debi386. Press ^] three times within 1s to > abort execution. > root@d

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 09:57 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:05:36AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > today I needed to cancel an upgrade for my stable, testing, unstable > > mix, since the upgrade wanted to remove xserver-xorg. > > If you provide what apt said it was goin

Re: The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:05:36AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > today I needed to cancel an upgrade for my stable, testing, unstable > mix, since the upgrade wanted to remove xserver-xorg. If you provide what apt said it was going to do to the list, then the list might be able to explain what is h

The current enforced switch to Wayland (likely not for stable)

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, today I needed to cancel an upgrade for my stable, testing, unstable mix, since the upgrade wanted to remove xserver-xorg. I can't find an official Debian Wiki about Wayland. If I should switch to Wayland, how do I keep or get back my xorg.conf settings? Section "ServerLayout" Ident