Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Manjul Apratim
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 02 octobre 2011 à 02:36 -0400, Manjul Apratim a écrit : > > And now a lot of software in Sid is no more the latest that the FOSS > > world has to offer - to cite a few, Sid still has rhythmbox-0.12 while > > I have been using r

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 02 octobre 2011 à 02:36 -0400, Manjul Apratim a écrit : > And now a lot of software in Sid is no more the latest that the FOSS > world has to offer - to cite a few, Sid still has rhythmbox-0.12 while > I have been using rhythmbox-2.90 in both Ubuntu and Arch without > problems for quite

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hiya, Manjul Apratim wrote: > I cannot help but view too many apt pins > as an intentional recipe for disaster! If you really want to experience life on the edge, you can try this: echo 'APT::Default-Release "experimental";' \ >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/preferexperimental.conf

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Manjul Apratim wrote: Therefore, from purely a user's perspective, I wonder about the daunting task of maintaining Testing/Sid/Experimental separately - with due respect, if Sid was itself Experimental, and Testing the stabler version of that (but < Stable) which would eventu

Re: On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 02:36:03AM -0400, Manjul Apratim wrote: > My reason for harassing the venerable Debian developers on here is probably > not new and discussed time and again given the thoroughness with which > Debian does everything: the time that I was not following Debian has > witnessed t

Re: On Sid and Experimental (GNOME3 transition)

2011-10-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 02:36:03 -0400 Manjul Apratim wrote: > cite a few, Sid still has rhythmbox-0.12 while I have been using > rhythmbox-2.90 in both Ubuntu and Arch without problems for quite some time OK, what that comes down to is the migration to libgtk3 from libgtk2 and gnome3 from gnome2. Th

On Sid and Experimental

2011-10-01 Thread Manjul Apratim
Hi All! I have been a long-time Debian user/lurker and this is my first time walking in here. Debian was THE distro that made me begin to love GNU/Linux after having a love/hate relationship with Red Hat and Mandriva - starting with a taste through Knoppix, and then an introduction to Etch. Due to