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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. Wants them to use modern testing practices? by PepeGSay · · Score: 0, Troll

    But I thought that all that free open source manpower solved all these quality and security problems?

  2. Debian = crap by orionware · · Score: 0, Troll

    Heard the hype, tried it, quickly dumped it.

    Have never had trouble with any of the commercial or GPL apps on Redhat or even FC3.

    Stick with what works, you'll be better off. We had some Debian boxes when an old pro-Debian admin was still around. The commercial stuff we relied upon had trouble with the D.

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    Karma means nothing to me, so suck it...
  3. Re:Complex systems are hard to manage. Period. by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 0, Troll

    apt is a killer feature because it's the best installation system out therem and does a great job.

    Windows has about 50 competing ones, and no central repository to get libraries etc. so you end up having to search all over the net for the runtimes.

    OSX only has on 'sort of' installer, but doesn't support uninstall which makes it kinda useless. It has exactly the same library issues as any other OS. It is after all just Unix with a GUI. (try running an app compiled under gcc4 on osx 10.3 for example... they renamed libstdc++ and it's not available as a package, so you have to find a copy, download it, su then put it into the system manually... not so user friendly.).

  4. Why go through the trouble? by Kosmon · · Score: 0, Troll

    I really don't see the appeal in spending 2+ days to get a simple install/upgrade to work. Don't most good OSes (Windows, OSX) already have this figured out?

  5. Re:A hacker's upgrade... by Burz · · Score: 0, Troll

    I like Debian, and I can say this 'answer' is a load of evasive BS (based on evasiveness of Debian itself and other Linux distros).

    Can you just answer me this: What is the patchlevel of your operating system?