-----Original Message----- From: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Exim4 in Debian? Date: 04/26/24 13:51:02
Chime Hart, le ven. 26 avril 2024 10:23:33 -0700, a ecrit: > I am noticing here in Debian SID that packages I use > regularly are mysteriously vanishing. SID is what it is: unstable. At the moment there is a huge upgrade to 64bit time_t which makes various packages non-installable, and thus apt has a hard time finding another solution than just removing packages. If you don't want instability, please use the testing distribution. Thank you, Samuel! I didn't pursue the "why", but I knew I'd seen chatter about that "t64" that many package upgrades are referencing. Now I understand. For what it's worth, I'm on Trixie which had a couple hundred packages caught up in that over the last few days. I was bored this morning so I messed with ihe upgrade a couple packages at a time. Most packages finally upgraded, but there are still a few holdouts that refuse to install without purging my LXQt desktop environment first. Nope, don't want that to happen, grin. At one point, apt-get wanted to remove gdb (debugging) by itself. I knew I had manually installed that package so I let it be removed. I reinstalled gdb as the very next step, and a bunch of packages on developer hold suddenly also wanted upgraded without any further problems. That was a nice bonus that I've seen happen in the past. For what it's worth, I haven't rebooted yet. Not ashamed to say I'm a little afraid to just this second while things are still working well. Cindy :) DISCLAIMER: This is my first listserv reply using Evolution after Gmail dumped their old, simple web based format. My apologies in advance if there are any major formatting glitches in this response. This little side adventure sure has had its own learning curve. :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
