Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-18 Thread John Hasler
Martin Read writes: > unstable is allowed to contain packages with RC (release-critical) > bugs. testing isn't. More accurately, packages can be uploaded to Unstable without regard to dependencies. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-18 Thread Martin Read
On 18/09/14 09:16, Joe wrote: You don't say which distribution this is, but it's either testing or unstable. This doesn't happen in stable, but it's fairly regular in unstable. I don't use testing, but I'd have thought this kind of thing was unusual there, as this sort of serious disturbance shou

Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-18 Thread Joe
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:03:27 -0700 tom arnall wrote: > I recently did a dist-upgrade and found afterwards that a lot of > applications were missing: > > open office > smplayer > skype > calibre > poppler text utilities > > And about half a dozen more. And this was after only a few days use of >

Re: applications missing after dist-upgrade

2014-09-17 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 18-09-14 00:03, tom arnall schreef: > I recently did a dist-upgrade and found afterwards that a lot of > applications were missing: > > open office > smplayer > skype > calibre > poppler text utilities > > And about half a dozen more. And this was after only a few days use of > the new system,