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The results unveiled two cases of slightly outdated shlibs, and a few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