[64studio-devel] Testing branch should be fixed

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Daniel,

|--==> Daniel James writes:

  DJ> 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).

  DJ> Maybe we should look at Gimp 2.4 again after our 2.1 stable

I do agree. By the way, are there show stoppers for the 2.1 release?
If the testing branch is now stable enough we could release it.

  DJ> release. Some of the Etch packages are looking quite old now, if you
  DJ> 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.

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

Probably yes.

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

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

Bluetooth support is now included by default, if no relevant hardware
is found the applet should not pop up. However in case somebody plugs
an USB bluetooth interface, it will be correctly detected. A part from
that were there other packages which aptitude pulled in?

Ciao!

Free