Hello, Is the current state of "testing" really THAT bad ?
I like the debian distribution very much and I tell its advantages very often to my friends - and to my girlfriend. I wantet to install some software for my girlfriend. Well, today I disgraced myself with debian. Of course, I did an apt-get update before the following procedure. I tried to install kde for her: it is not possible because: >Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed > or kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable >E: Sorry, broken packages Today, this bug is 72 days old (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=kdebase-au diolibs&archive=no). I told very often, that debian is very fast with removing bugs... Ok, since I do not stick to kde, I wanted to install gnome instead. I told many times how easy it is to install new software using apt. But: >Package gnome has no available version, but exists in the database. >This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and >never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents>of sources.list >.E: Package gnome has no installation candidate Hmm. I tried to use tasksel to install gnome: >E: Package task-gnome-desktop has no installation candidate The same error came for every gnome task I tried. I tried to do the work manually: I cut-n-pasted the packages from the tasksel info window to the console to install them via apt-get. The essence of the result: >Package gnome-terminal has no available version, >Package gmc has no available version, but exists in the database >Package gnome-faq has no available version, but exists in the database. >Package eeyes has no available version, but exists in the database. Shall I go on ? I would understand this if I hadn't made an apt-get update before. But I had. Oh, yes, I nearly forgot this: I was showing my girlfriend how to write EMails with sylpheed. I like this client very much, but some very simple questions by my girlfriend showed me how many bugs/missing features version 0.7.4-4 has. I would like to install a newer version and there really IS a big version step availiable. But Version 0.9.3-1 still did not make it into testing. I would like to try balsa instead, but you know how the result of installing gnome was... In the end, after three years of using debian as a professional, I am very sad about the current state of debian testing... -- Markus Grunwald Registered Linux User Nr 101577 http://counter.li.org
