On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:33:55 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hi! > > I've performed some tests of partial upgrades from GNOME 2.6 to GNOME > 2.8 in experimental. > > I tried to upgrade one component at a time, and once that was done, I > logged out of GNOME, restarted GDM, and killed the GNOME user processes > that could be temporarily laying around (bonobo-activation, > gnome-keyring...). After logging into GNOME again, I tried to start the > applications that usually show problems quite fast (gedit, nautilus, > etc). > > In some cases, before upgrading a lib I tested for pending shlib bumps. > > The results unveiled two cases of slightly outdated shlibs, and a few > -common/-data packages that are not updated. The former have been fixed > in SVN already, and the latter isn't even a bug in some cases, in other > cases it just means the translations are not completely up to date, but > no grave functionality regression. The GNOME system always worked ok > when logging in after each iteration. > > I upgraded stuff in this order: [...]
> evolution [...] > Other tests using different combinations would be welcome, maybe not > step by step. Just adding experimental and doing "apt-get install > gnome-applets", to see how it goes, would be ok, and same for big stuff > like nautilus, etc. Evolution is all I updated, it failed and after some search I discovered that an update to gtk 2.4.13 had the bug fixes I need. Many logouts/reboots later and it is working fine. I say release the asparagus. Cheers, Anand