[64studio-devel] Testing branch should be fixed

[Daniel James]

Hi Free,

> I've decided to drop some of the backports which recently broke the
> testing branch, most noticeably gimp 2.4 along with a number of
> dependences it needs (gtk, ghostscript, and many others).

Maybe we should look at Gimp 2.4 again after our 2.1 stable release. 
Some of the Etch packages are looking quite old now, if you consider how 
long ago Etch was in freeze (December 2006).

> I think we now have learned the lesson and should not touch core
> libraries of the system, or at least changes to such components should
> be tested carefully before including them in the testing branch.

Right, although I think Tim's problem with gnome-core was due to the 
fact that he was running a backported Gnome 2.6.18.

> You can downgrade your systems with:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get install cdd-utils
> aptitude install ~t^cdd$
> apt-get dist-upgrade

That worked fine here, no broken packages - the only thing is that a lot 
of packages that I would consider 'optional' were installed 
automatically. So I now have the bluetooth packages installed, for 
instance, even though this machine is not a laptop and does not have 
Bluetooth hardware. I think it's important to keep the distro lean.

Cheers!

Daniel