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Debian Upgrade May Cause Serious Breakage
daria42 writes "Debian developer Bill Allombert has e-mailed the Debian community saying he estimates about 30% of users upgrading from Debian Woody to Sarge will suffer 'serious breakage'. Allombert says the upgrade process suffers from a number of bugs reported before the release went live several days ago. Chief among the problems, he said, were cyclic dependencies and the fact that software installation tool apt depended heavily on the changing C++ libraries. Allombert wants developers to test the upgrade cycle continuously during development and not just during the freeze period just before release."
I'm a serious computer user. I make a living doing so. I write light web apps, create media, edit audio. I do so using Windows 2000.
I have no idea what a "cyclic dependency" is nor do I want to know.
I've flirted with the idea of installing Linux on a spare box. Is this nonesense the kind of stuff I should expect?
> How many times have you seen people on here touting manpower and availability of resources as the solution to these problems.
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Totally agree. If I had moderation points I would send them positively your way.
Slashdot is made up of nothing more than a bunch of yes-men slapping congratulations on each other's backs.
---- Go ahead, mod me down, I'll just post it again and you lose your mod points.
How to kill Debian in five ("Three, sir!") easy steps:
Seriously, WTF? I like Debian, but those folks need to get their heads out of their asses. They need to stop wasting time trying to officially support the two dozen or so architectures nobody gives a damn about, stop engaging in wars about whether non-free belongs in Debian, and concentrate on releasing something that's reasonably current and also supported by security updates. Oh, and it would be nice if doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' didn't break things.
Thank $DEITY I run Gentoo :-)
If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
Thank $DEITY I run Gentoo :-)
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