Re: potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare

2001-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Wohler wrote: > Are there any tools that allow you to answer the question: Why did > the update of these 100 packages cause these 30 perfectly good > packages to get removed? This task is impossible to do by hand. It's helpful to turn on apt's problems resolver output. -o Debug::pkgPro

Re: potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare

2001-03-10 Thread Cory Snavely
Bill, since my similar experience, I've seen plenty of other posts about the same thing. Thanks go to Joey for responding, although I agree that his answer is a little terse. What I take from it is that 1) that's what unstable is all about--needing to be prepared for some weirdness here and there,

Re: potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler wrote: > So file some bug reports, that's what the debian bug tracking system is > for, and that's what testing is for too -- so people can test it and > tell us what's broken/ Hey Joey, where I could identify the package, I have done so. U

Re: potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare

2001-03-10 Thread Joey Hess
So file some bug reports, that's what the debian bug tracking system is for, and that's what testing is for too -- so people can test it and tell us what's broken/ Bill Wohler wrote: > (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on an undefined value at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Questi

potato->woody upgrade story, saga, nightmare

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Wohler
If you are thinking of upgrading to woody, don't. At least, not right now. My first question: where are all the X packages in woody? Why all the broken dependencies? When can we crawl out of our holes? I replaced potato with woody in /etc/apt/sources.list, ran apt-get update, and then