> From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the > version was 0.95r6 or something like that. > > I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly > not all the problems that people are writing about when upgrading > 1.1 -> 1.2. > > One reason may be that I just don't have as many packages installed, > but I was wondering if anybody had any other explainations as to why many > small incremental upgrades over the months seems to be more stable (in the > sense of installations not breaking) than making larger leaps from > point release to point release. > > I'd really like to hear that my observation is indeed false, since > upgradability is, of course, one of our major claims for Debian.
I wonder: Was the Debian 1.2 release ever tested? That is, did anyone at Debian try installing it from scratch? Of the problems I've hit, I don't really know which are because of InfoMagic's bad CD-ROM, but a lot seem to be from the Debian release itself. (For example, at least from my CD-ROM, Netscape wrapper package depends on X11R6, but there is no package X11R6, and no package provides X11R6.) Daniel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
