Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-18 Thread Joe
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:03:27 -0700 tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: I recently did a dist-upgrade and found afterwards that a lot of applications were missing: open office smplayer skype calibre poppler text utilities And about half a dozen more. And this was after only a few

Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/09/14 09:16, Joe wrote: You don't say which distribution this is, but it's either testing or unstable. This doesn't happen in stable, but it's fairly regular in unstable. I don't use testing, but I'd have thought this kind of thing was unusual there, as this sort of serious disturbance

Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-18 Thread John Hasler
Martin Read writes: unstable is allowed to contain packages with RC (release-critical) bugs. testing isn't. More accurately, packages can be uploaded to Unstable without regard to dependencies. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-17 Thread tom arnall
I recently did a dist-upgrade and found afterwards that a lot of applications were missing: open office smplayer skype calibre poppler text utilities And about half a dozen more. And this was after only a few days use of the new system, i.e., i fear there may be other missing children. Is this

Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-17 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 18-09-14 00:03, tom arnall schreef: I recently did a dist-upgrade and found afterwards that a lot of applications were missing: open office smplayer skype calibre poppler text utilities And about half a dozen more. And this was after only a few days use of the new system, i.e., i