Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:01:29PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Why is SPI so against frequent, less-dramatically-different releases, > anyway? Please help us if you care. http://qa.debian.org/ is a good place to start. > Note: I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and > suggest

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:15:01PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Note: I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and suggest > > further discussion take place there. > > No, the Policy list isn't correct, either. Any special reason you're being mysterious, rather than just

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:01:29PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Why is SPI so against frequent, less-dramatically-different releases, > anyway? SPI has absolutely nothing to do with Debian's release management practices. > Note: I'm posting this to Debian-Policy as well as Debian-User, and suggest

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 01:10:30PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Which implies a kernel issue ... if that's the case, you can install > Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages for potato (URL in another recent > thread). Good deduction, but wrong. I did use Adrian Bunk's much-appreciated packages to

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 12:33:02PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:40:42AM -0500, Sean wrote: > > > I don't see how blindly attempting to install unstable packages into a > > stable distribution is a Debian install issue. > > No, it's a Debian *policy* issue. The problem is

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:40:42AM -0500, Sean wrote: > I don't see how blindly attempting to install unstable packages into a > stable distribution is a Debian install issue. No, it's a Debian *policy* issue. The problem is the absurdly long time between releases, so it's very hard to use stab

Re: XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Sean
On Sat, 2001-11-17 at 11:10, Rafe B. wrote: > > >>I just tried to upgrade my "potato" box with > >>XFree86 from "unstable." Bad idea? > > > >Yes! > > > > > >You have a mixture of 3.3.6 and 4.1 packages on your system > > How is a newbie expected to avoid this situation? > You know, I've been

XF86 4.1 on potato

2001-11-17 Thread Rafe B.
>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:01:51 + >From: Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault w/ XF86Setup >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >>I just tried to