Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Default User
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 18:39 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 21/09/2018 07:51, Default User wrote: > > Using advice given, using apt-listings and aptitude full-update, l was > able > > to update everything except the 3 packages in question, which are now > > "pinned", with a priority of 3000. > > I

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 21/09/2018 07:51, Default User wrote: Using advice given, using apt-listings and aptitude full-update, l was able to update everything except the 3 packages in question, which are now "pinned", with a priority of 3000. I find apt-mark hold more convenient than pinning. I do have both cron

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Default User
> > > Hi guys. Thank you for your replies. Please note that I am really not familiar with either cron or (especially) with package pinning. Using advice given, using apt-listings and aptitude full-update, l was able to update everything except the 3 packages in question, which are now "pinned", w

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:17:51AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > didier gaumet writes: > > Please note that security updates for "unstable" distribution are not > > managed by the security team. Hence, "unstable" does not get security > > updates in a timely manner. > > There is no promise of securi

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread John Hasler
didier gaumet writes: > Please note that security updates for "unstable" distribution are not > managed by the security team. Hence, "unstable" does not get security > updates in a timely manner. There is no promise of security updates to Unstable but in practice the developers upload fixes quite

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Joe
On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:26:05 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Read the bug reports and decide whether any of them will hurt you: > > On 20/09/2018 12:54, Default User wrote: > > grave bugs of libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (2.0.3-3 → 2.1.4-1) > > b1 - #908800 - nautilus: can't use nautilus without >

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread Joe
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:16:30 -0400 Default User wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:05 PM John Hasler > wrote: > > > You are running Unstable. It can be like that. > > -- > > John Hasler > > jhas...@newsguy.com > > Elmwood, WI USA > > > > > > 182 packages? No, three. The rest can be upgrad

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/09/2018 à 03:16, Default User a écrit : >  182 packages? from https://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ : "The unstable distribution ("sid") The code name for Debian's development distribution is "sid", aliased to "unstable". Most of the development work that is done in Debian, is uploaded to

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-19 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Read the bug reports and decide whether any of them will hurt you: On 20/09/2018 12:54, Default User wrote: grave bugs of libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 (2.0.3-3 → 2.1.4-1) b1 - #908800 - nautilus: can't use nautilus without tracker If you use nautilus, "apt-get install tracker". serious bugs of

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-19 Thread Default User
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:05 PM John Hasler wrote: > You are running Unstable. It can be like that. > -- > John Hasler > jhas...@newsguy.com > Elmwood, WI USA > > 182 packages?

Re: Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-19 Thread John Hasler
You are running Unstable. It can be like that. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Unstable update ridiculousness

2018-09-19 Thread Default User
Hey guys, running Debian Unstable. This is ridiculous: --- user@user:~$ sudo aptitude -Pvv update [sudo] password for user: Get: 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease [233 kB] Get: 2 http://ftp.