On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 19:40:54 +
Joe wrote:
> No, it doesn't, sometimes a judicious bit of butchery is required to
> clear a dependency jam. I waited for quite a while recently, when
> apt-get wanted to rip out a fair number of packages which I use, and
> aptitude just threw up its virtual hands
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 16:40:01 +0200
Alex Moonshine wrote:
>
> How about waiting a few weeks before dist-upgrading on sid? Solves
> all problems just as well.
No, it doesn't, sometimes a judicious bit of butchery is required to
clear a dependency jam. I waited for quite a while recently, when
apt
On 11/03/2015 05:19 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
When tracking sid, the biggest problems you're likely to encounter
cannot easily be fixed in-place at all; you're likely to need to
reinstall Debian from scratch. I have encountered this twice, and
that's more than enough. The latter is, IMO, by far
On 2015-11-03 at 09:40, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> On 11/03/2015 04:06 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
>>
>> So far, the only structural problem I've had with testing has been
>> in the grub-related packages, in the form of longstanding open
>> bugs reported by people whose computers became unbootable after
On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 09:06 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> > To someone who runs stable - sure. He's running testing, though,
> > which is more troublesome, in my experience, then Sid.
>
> That does not match my experience, at all.
Interesting, my own experience is pretty much the opposite. I have
On 11/03/2015 04:06 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
So far, the only structural problem I've had with testing has been in
the grub-related packages, in the form of longstanding open bugs
reported by people whose computers became unbootable after a grub
upgrade (which may have been related to the trans
On 2015-11-03 at 04:07, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> On 11/03/2015 06:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
>> You mean your suggestion to install Sid? I agree. Suggesting that
>> someone run sid just so that they can have the latest package, is
>> IMHO, very cruel.
>
> To someone who runs stable - sure. H
Also, not installing the latest version - installing the package at all,
as it is absent from testing entirely.
On 11/03/2015 06:15 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
You mean your suggestion to install Sid? I agree. Suggesting that
someone run sid just so that they can have the latest package, is
IMHO, very cruel.
To someone who runs stable - sure. He's running testing, though, which
is more troublesome, in
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:46:35PM +0200, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 12:58 PM, Andrey Rybak wrote:
> >thanks for your answer.
> >its very strange for me that it is not possible to use filezilla in
> >testing. i was using testing brunch in several years and filezilla was
> >presenting in
On 11/02/2015 12:58 PM, Andrey Rybak wrote:
thanks for your answer.
its very strange for me that it is not possible to use filezilla in
testing. i was using testing brunch in several years and filezilla was
presenting in there. am i right? is it ok if i will change "testing"
to "stratch"?
No
On Mon 02 Nov 2015 at 10:58:15 +, Andrey Rybak wrote:
> thanks for your answer.its very strange for me that it is not possible
> to use filezilla in testing. i was using testing brunch in several
> years and filezilla was presenting in there. am i right? is it ok if i
> will change "testing" t
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 10:20:21 + (UTC)
Andrey Rybak wrote:
Hello Andrey,
>Release: testing/unstableCodename: n/awhere does unstable appear
I've never been sure myself but, for as long as I've used testing,
testing systems have always been labelled that way.
>filezilla:#aptitude install
Testing/unstable is just a common release name for testing AND unstable.
Your sources.list is fine. Filezilla package isn't present in
testing/stretch (see https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/filezilla). In
fact, if you were running sid, you'd be able to install it.
Thats my sources list:
# less /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ t
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