The backported packages are NOT officially supported in Debian, you use
them at your own risk.
Also I have two words for you "line wrapping"...
Adam.
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just an observation not a criticism, but is it just me or have some Debian packages
> gone pear shaped lately?? Seems people (including myself) have had problems doing
> stuff like an "apt-get dist-upgrade" - even in Woody. Latest glitch was last night
> when I upgraded KDE to 3.1.1 on Woody. Sure enough I got the same thing as when I
> went from 3.1.0-0 to 3.1.0-1! No biggie, I'll just "for PACK in `dpkg -l|grep
> 3.1.0|awk '{print $2}'; do dpkg --purge --all $PACK; done" then do the "apt-get
> upgrade" again. I had to do something similar last time....
>
> I've been using Debian for over 3 years (Linux for over 7, and other *nix's for more
> than a decade) and never had these sort of packaging problems - Dead Rat/RPM is the
> exception....man does that blow. Seems to only be a problem with back-ported
> packages (eg, XFree 4.2.x or KDE 3 for Woody), but still it should "Just Work (tm)".
>
> --James
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