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