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Debian Upgrade May Cause Serious Breakage

Posted by Zonk on from the broken-down-busted-up dept.

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."

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  1. I hate to laugh, but... by LearnToSpell · · Score: 2, Funny

    Schadenfreude, I think they call it. Testing for how long, and now this? Ah well. It'll get worked out. Gotta release at some point to find all the ugly bugs. :-P

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  2. To whom it may concern. by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everything is falling apart. You may experience some discomfort. Just thought we would let you know. have a nice day.

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  3. Typical Debian! by JimDabell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously this was a rushed job. Typical Debian, always cutting corners, never taking the time to do things properly :P.

  4. Re:Mixing Lilo and some kernel configs not nice ei by SpiffyMarc · · Score: 4, Funny

    My brain exploded trying to parse this sentence.

    And we wonder why we aren't taken seriously by management. ;-)

  5. Continue waiting... by MECC · · Score: 2, Funny



    This is, after all, Debian

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