Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 24 oct 21, 20:21:49, Brian wrote: > On Sun 24 Oct 2021 at 13:43:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > westlake writes: > > > 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages > > > have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package. > > > > Packages migrate fr

Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 24 Oct 2021 at 13:43:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > westlake writes: > > 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages > > have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package. > > Packages migrate from Unstable (Sid) to Testing when they have been in > U

Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread John Hasler
westlake writes: > 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages > have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package. Packages migrate from Unstable (Sid) to Testing when they have been in Unstable for ten days with no serious bugs being filed and when all dep

Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread harryweaver
-- Sent with Tutanota, the secure & ad-free mailbox. 25 Oct 2021, 04:03 by j...@jretrading.com: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:59:19 -0400 > westlake wrote: > >> 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages >> have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the pa

Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread Joe
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:59:19 -0400 westlake wrote: > 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages > have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package. > > sid is more for development and requires a special setup with > snapshots or a chroot environment. >

Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 04:19:54AM +, Ashish Kujur wrote: > Hello everyone! > I switched to Sid from Stable last month and everything seems to be going > great. _How_ did you switch from stable? Did you upgrade to testing first, then upgrade to Sid? Important because, unless you have a mini

Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 24 oct 21, 04:19:54, Ashish Kujur wrote: > Hello everyone! > I switched to Sid from Stable last month and everything seems to be > going great. I have setup Timeshift to take snapsnots once everyday, > in case, any packages break. > I use GNU Octave 6.2 and it depends on older version of l

Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-24 Thread westlake
'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package. sid is more for development and requires a special setup with snapshots or a chroot environment.

Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

2021-10-23 Thread Ashish Kujur
Hello everyone! I switched to Sid from Stable last month and everything seems to be going great. I have setup Timeshift to take snapsnots once everyday, in case, any packages break. I use GNU Octave 6.2 and it depends on older version of libhypre. There's a newer version of libhypre available fr

held back packages

2003-03-25 Thread Phil Reardon
Hello: After a dist-upgrade from Woody to Sid, I find subsequent upgrades are leaving behind lots of packages, abot 350 in fact. Have I done anything wrong or are so may packages being held back for everyone these days. And if so, why? Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT