Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Brian May Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 00:30:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sun May 16 22:23:50 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.601 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, KHOP_HELO_FCRDNS=0.399, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5 X-Greylist: delayed 479 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at bendel; Sun, 16 May 2021 22:23:37 UTC Organization: Debian MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19154 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87a6ous4u5.fsf@canidae.wired.pri Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 22 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 08:15:30 +1000 X-Original-Message-ID: <87a6ous4u5.fsf@canidae.wired.pri> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:13367 Thomas Goirand writes: > All the horrors that you are painting after this paragraph, are due to > the fact that you aren't doing "apt-get dist-upgrade". I'm having a hard > time understanding why you're both: > - not doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" > - complaining that it's breaking your system > > Could you care to explain? This makes absolutely no sense. A rolling type update might be convenient, but it is not supported by Debian, and has not been supported by Debian in sometime. There are complexities in such an arrangement, and it is difficult to test such arrangements will work as expected. Such an arrangement is not guaranteed or tested to work. In short, if you want to upgrade to Debian version n, you really should be running entirely Debian n-1 before you start the upgrade. This is important. And you probably should upgrade everything in one go. As this is the only tested upgrade procedure. -- Brian May