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Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200
Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> yes I know, this is normal for unstable. I am using debian/testing,
> which is close to unstable. 
> 
> The point of my message was not the deinstallation of packages at
> all, but the deinstallation of packages which are still usefull for
> people without a substitute or a substitude with the same ease as the
> uninstalled package.
> 
> Think of people, they do an upgrade after 2 years (or earlier) and
> their applications are gone. Might be ok for experienced people (who
> are experienced in the console), but this is not ok for people, who
> NEED graphical, easy to use tools.
> 
> There are more than you expect.
> 
> No offence. :)
> 

And none taken. Yes, I've lost one or two applications over the years
which I was actively using. But it is rare for this to happen without a
good substitute (in someone's opinion) being available.

But it does happen. I use Remmina for MS remote desktop, but there was
a time when that was very buggy, and the previous best RDP software had
been withdrawn. I carried on using the latter as long as I could, by
which time Remmina was useable. Alarm Clock was the most recent
application I was using which was withdrawn. It's a bit more of a
problem when it's a driver for proprietary hardware, which
manufacturers often do not provide for Linux, and only one person/group
was making an OS version, more or less as a hobby. 

-- 
Joe

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dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-09-17 12:50 +0200
  Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-09-17 13:10 +0200
  Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-09-17 17:10 +0200
    Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-09-17 17:20 +0200
      Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-09-17 17:30 +0200
        Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-09-17 23:00 +0200
      Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-17 18:10 +0200
        Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2020-09-18 11:40 +0200
          Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-18 17:30 +0200
      Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2020-09-17 19:20 +0200
      Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net> - 2020-09-17 21:00 +0200
      Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 09:40 +0200

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