Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> People just doing a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing > what happens, why it happens and how to fix the emerging problems will > have a very bad time using Testing, because there will be a day where an > innocent "apt dist-upgrade" removes half their packages. Well, just don't

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:18:02 +0100, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > On 03/02/2016 01:45 PM, Michael wrote: >> Ive been using it for the last few months, and have had no major issues >> that where not of my own causing.. :) > > Good! According to the Debian wiki it's recommended to do a "minimal" >

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread songbird
Albin Otterhäll wrote: > What is the current stability of Debian testing (Stretch)? I know it had > quite a lot of stability issues some months ago, and wondering if they > are resolved yet. depends upon what you are running and how you do it. are you upgrading from stable or i

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Albin Otterhäll wrote: > On 03/02/2016 02:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> People just doing a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing >> what happens, why it happens and how to fix the emerging problems will >> have a very bad time using Testing, because there will

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Erwan David
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:54:29PM CET, Albin Otterhäll said: > Doesn't it exist any "extensions" to apt that checks for reported bugs? > I'm aware that I've to check for eventual bugs if I'm going with testing > and not doing any blind aptitude dist-upgrade. Btw, where is

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 02:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > People just doing a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing > what happens, why it happens and how to fix the emerging problems will > have a very bad time using Testing, because there will be a day where an > innocent "apt dist-upgrade"

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I upgraded from Jessie to Stretch today morning. As per now, things are > working fine. That is the main "problem" with testing: "as per now". Testing can be fine one day and then horribly broken (dependency wise) for weeks, as soon as a major

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I upgraded from Jessie to Stretch today morning. As per now, things are working fine. There were problems during upgrade, as broken packages and dpkg interrupted. However, once installation was completed, everything is running perfectly. I have KDE and GNOME currently running. Let's see what

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 01:45 PM, Michael wrote: > Ive been using it for the last few months, and have had no major issues > that where not of my own causing.. :) Good! According to the Debian wiki it's recommended to do a "minimal" installation. I assume it's just debian with all the "extra" (Gnome and

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Michael
On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 13:40 +0100, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > What is the current stability of Debian testing (Stretch)? I know it > had > quite a lot of stability issues some months ago, and wondering if > they > are resolved yet. > Ive been using it for the last few months, and

Current stability of Debian testing?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
What is the current stability of Debian testing (Stretch)? I know it had quite a lot of stability issues some months ago, and wondering if they are resolved yet.