[TriLUG] aptitude broke gaim!

[Cristobal Palmer]

BRING ON THE PAAAAAAAAAIN!

::cough::

sorry... couldn't resist.

-CMP

On 7/12/05, Ben Pitzer <bpitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay, so let's get something straight. As Mike stated, Sarge is now
> the Stable branch of Debian. The new Testing branch is called 'etch'.
> Testing can be fairly unstable, but the closer to the end of a
> development cycle it is, the more stable it will be. Stable is
> static, in that it VERY rarely gets any feature upgrades, or new
> software. It's frozen in time, so to speak, with the exception of bug
> and security fixes. Testing, on the other hand, evolves. It gets
> more and more stable over time (which is the point) until it's stable
> enough for the Debian leadership to call it 'stable' and release it as
> such to the public. Given that we just had a release wherein Sarge
> became Debian 3.1 (Stable), the current Testing branch is fairly
> unstable, comparatively speaking. I recommend that most folks use
> Sarge for now, and give etch a little time to mature before they use
> it. I rarely recommend that anybody use Unstable (codename Sid)
> unless they're bug hunting, testing, developing, or just have a high
> tolerance for pain.
> 
> -Ben
> 
> On 7/11/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> > Well it looks like building from source was the solution to getting gaim
> > going again. As far as running Sarge over Woody... Everyone I talked
> > to when I was considering Woody said "man, you gotta run Sarge! It's
> > not that bad, really, 'unstable' is sort of a misnomer..."
> >
> > Oh well. No biggie.. Thanks for the input, and it looks like I spawned
> > a good thread anyway. :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > ~Brian
> >
> >
> > Alan Porter wrote:
> > >>Seriously, should one always use dist-upgrade?
> > >
> > >
> > > I disagree with Jason. I *always* do a dist-upgrade.
> > > That way, I am updating the entire system rather than
> > > a few particular files.
> > >
> > > But I don't claim to be an expert. I'd love to hear
> > > other opinions about this.
> > >
> > > Alan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > .
> > >
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