On Saturday 23 July 2005 02:50 am, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > > For now, avoid the upgrade command. ;-) > > Waaaayy too late for that I'm afraid. ;) I am running xorg with > Enlightenment right now using Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird for my > communication and browsing needs.
This is probably a solved problem that I just don't know about yet, but is there any sort of push- or subscription-based method for getting status updates on Sid's (lack of) stability? The last time I asked in #Debian I was told "you come into IRC and ask", which I find to be a significantly less than optimal solution, particularly for the IRC regulars who then have to answer questions over and over again. :-) I'm not thinking of anything fancy; just, say, an announce mailing list that gets messages like: "We're starting the gcc 4 ABI transition tomorrow. Stuff will be broken for a long time as we slowly recompile the entire tree. apt-get upgrade is a very bad idea for now, unless you like submitting bug reports (which are always welcome)." "Gnome 2.10 entered Sid today. It should all work properly, but no promises." "Xorg enters Sid tomorrow. Before upgrading, PLEASE read the upgrade guide at http://someurl/"; That would be a good way to reduce the number of redundant questions in IRC and on lists like these, as well as a way for the cutting edge folks to not slit their wrists by accident. (And if they do anyway, then they can't say they weren't warned. <g>) Anyway, does something like that already exist? If so, where? If not, would there be any interest in creating something like that? A mailing list or RSS feed would be most sensible, I'd think. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
