Hi, I know that the basic issues of my question have been asked many times here previously. But, time goes on and things change. Maybe this all too important issue needs to be addressed again.
When I talked with some Debian folks at Linux World, they indicated that Potato was fairly stable and that I could safely upgrade a Slink installation to Potato without problems. However, when looking at the mailing list archives, it seems that it isn't so. For one, perl and everything it depends on is broken. Ooops! There was some talk about putting out an interim release with updated packages. That talk seems to have died out. There was also some talk about bringing the latest applications from Unstable to Stable so that Stable remains up to date, which is kind of what they do with the Linux kernel. Without some mechanism to do this, Debian is badly outdated. Slink still ships with Enlightenment 0.14, Gnome 0.30 and LyX 0.12--my favorite tools are hopelessly unusable. I need a 2.2 kernel before I can use Debian on my main box. But, I am experimenting with Slink on a small Pentium box. I must say that everything works wonderfully. I can apt-get through my big box's ip-chains. Everything is cool except for the legacy major components, like the windows managers. I want to upgrade the packages to the latest. I know that many Debian users do this because nobody could remain happy with standard Slink for long. Is there a standard place for updated packages? If there isn't, there should be. At least I want the latest released Gnome, Enlightenment, LyX and GIMP--all the major packages which take so much effort to compile and install from tarballs. Somebody has done this. Where do I start? What can we do to help others with this common problem? Thank you ahead of time. Regards, Arne Flones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
