Not a solution, but might I also suggest installing/running apt-listbugs?
It will go through the BTS during an upgrade. From the man page:
apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian
Bug
Tracking System and lists them. In particular, it is intended
to be
invoked before each upgrade by apt, or other similar package
managers,
in order to check whether the upgrade/installation is safe.
It's a nice way to thumbnail what might get broken in the upgrade, and you
can hold packages and restart the upgrade.
--b
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Frank McCormick <debianl...@videotron.ca>wrote:
> On 05/08/2013 12:40 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>>
>>> Booted up my Sid partition this morning and found the network failed
>>> to initialize. A message during boot said something to the effect
>>> auto lo had been declared twice in /etc/network/interfaces and then
>>> that the same file was unreadable.
>>>
>>
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-**bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707052<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707052>
>>
>> There were two different bugs. Here is the entire set:
>>
>>
> //snip//
>
>
> Yes. Now that Wheezy has released Sid is once again very Unstable.
>>
>> The last year that Sid has been frozen has made Sid relatively
>> "stable". But now the floodgates are open again and everyone is
>> pushing changes, sometimes untested changes, into Sid again. For the
>> next few months it will be exceptionally rough there as a year's worth
>> of pending disruptive changes are pushed through. If you are using
>> Sid then you must be able to track problems in the BTS and be able to
>> use snapshot.debian.org to recover previous versions of packages and
>> return to them as bugs appear. You might consider using Testing
>> Jessie instead as it will be somewhat insulated from the thrash in
>> Unstable Sid.
>>
>> Let the calamity begin!
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
> Sounds like a good idea. I like running bleeding-edge software but not
> if I have to spend a lot of time on the BTS :)
> Can I just make a simple change in my sources list to "testing" and wait
> for everything to catch up? I have run Sid for years and it **seems** that
> it wasn't this disruptive ? (see my other message about apt-get wanting to
> purge gedit and rhythmbox etc)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Frank
>
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