Hi again list, and thanks for the replies. My PC survived the upgrade to Unstable and actually has fewer problems than I did with Testing (besides a few xorg.conf and nvidia-xconfig issues, and 2 gtk libraries being held back due to dependancy problems).
A follow-up for those packages I mentioned: xmms - Removed because it is old and unmaintained, has dependancy problems. I had problems with audacious/testing, but audacious/unstable works great and looks just like XMMS (with the Refugee skin). Also it seems to have remote control functionality (dbus) which I need at work for it to be a replacement for XMMS. nvidia-glx (nvidia-graphics-drivers) - An old version was sitting in Testing for months. It was never updated in unstable because the updated versions have a lot of bug reports, and also because they want kernel module packages which were never uploaded (presumably because users can make them with modula-assistant). Eventually, a newer package linux-2.6 (which had dependancy issues with the old nvidia-graphics-drivers) moved to Testing, which kicked nvidia-graphics-drivers out of Testing. comix - The version in Testing had security problems, so it was removed automatically (however, the insecure version stayed in Unstable). Almost a month later a fixed version was uploaded to stable and 10 days later it moved to Testing. Overall, I get the impression that Testing is a very good staging area for the next Stable, but it can be a 2nd-class citizen (compared to Stable and Unstable) for end-users, with packages getting very out of date or even disappearing from time to time. I need to keep this in mind for the future. David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
