On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:28, Bill Morgan wrote: > A few days ago, Colin Watson referred to > > "...perlmagick, which is still at a perl 5.6 > version in testing. This was temporarily necessary because getting perl > 5.8 was more important than waiting for all of perlmagick's > dependencies, which remain very messy and complicated; my notes say that > imagemagick needs the lcms dependency chain, which needs the gdbm > dependency chain, which needs the libsigc++ dependency chain, which > needs the libgc dependency chain. Only the last of those is close to > being ready for testing yet." > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg01398.html > > Since I'm really interested in starting to get to know imagemagick and > perlmagick, it looks like this may be the time to move from sarge to sid. > I've seen that coming for a while, and I'm not too intimidated about it, > but I'm wondering about the timing. > > Is this a good time to move to unstable, or is there breakage right now? > > Should I watch the mailing lists for 12-18 hours after the mirrors update > to see if there are problems? (And what time is that, again?) > > Or am I just being paranoid?
You're just being paranoid... ;) The last catastrophic problem I remember with Sid was... hmm... I don't remember actually... I seem to recall some problem with lilo about a year ago, but I'm not sure. Overall, it's long been my opinion that unstable is perfectly usable and "stable" for anyone willing to do more work than a simple apt-get upgrade with no user intervention. Two GREAT tools to install if you're going to use unstable are apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges. apt-listchanges will show you the changelogs for all of the packages you're updating before performing the update and will give you an opportunity to cancel if you see something you don't like. apt-listbugs will connect to the BTS before installing or updating any packages, and check for any serious/grave/critical bugs before doing the update. If it finds any, it will display them and give you the option to abort, hold the affected packages at their current versions, or proceed with the install. And it's always a good idea to keep up with debian-user. Any problems tend to pop up here extremely quickly, and you can also learn a great deal by just reading the list daily. :) (I've been more or less a lurker for almost two years now, with only occasional posts, yet I read the list daily and learn something new just about every day.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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