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Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository!

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On 9/6/2015 1:19 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:58:19 +0200
> Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> wrote:
>
>>> I suspect it will be more than a few days. Unstable has been
>>> disrupted for weeks, and aptitude full-upgrade still shrugs and
>>> says 'I can't do it, do you want to have a try?' There are more
>>> than 150 packages stuck at the moment, on a system with just over
>>> 4000 installed.
>>>
>>> Apt-get dist-upgrade wants to pull about seventy packages, but some
>>> are libraries which will be replaced by new versions. Gimp and
>>> gnome-mplayer are in the list, which I'm not willing to give up
>>> yet. If I get bored, I might mess around with synaptic to see if I
>>> can upgrade a few, but clearly there is still significant trouble.
>>>
>> gnome-mplayer is removed from testing and unstable. So I wouldn't
>> wait to long.
>>
> OK, thanks. I would hope not Gimp also...
>
Don't know how affected testing is by which transitions, but the ones 
the were causing
me grief in unstable were taglib, clucene, ffmpeg-libav, and opencv.

I expect flac, libmusicbrainz5, and libtorrent-rasterbar were adding to 
the confusion as
well.

https://release.debian.org/transitions/

I did uninstall ktorrent since I have not been using it anyway and I was 
finally able to get
everything up to date without removing anything I care about keeping.

I did have to work at it to find combinations that would not cause a big 
list of removals.

I use Synaptic. First using the default upgrade to get the low hanging 
fruit.  Then making
selections from the things that remain. Then going through the list of 
obsolete packages
and selecting packages to purge. If selecting something to purge gives 
me a list of changes
that includes something I want to keep that has a newer version 
available, and the list of
those things is reasonably small, then I will give the OK for that, then 
switch to
  'Custome Filter --> Marked Changes' then change the selection for the 
things I want to keep
to upgrade in order to see what else that triggers.

Later, Seeker

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upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository! Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-09-06 17:00 +0200
  Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation  of the repository! The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-09-06 17:10 +0200
    Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository! Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-09-06 17:20 +0200
      Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository! "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-09-06 18:20 +0200
    Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad  situation of the repository! Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-09-06 20:50 +0200
      Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository! Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-09-06 21:00 +0200
      Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad  situation of the repository! Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2015-09-06 22:00 +0200
        Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad  situation of the repository! Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-09-06 22:20 +0200
          Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad  situation of the repository! Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2015-09-06 22:30 +0200
          Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation  of the repository! Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 23:30 +0200
          Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad  situation of the repository! Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2015-09-06 23:50 +0200
            Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad  situation of the repository! Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2015-09-07 01:50 +0200
      Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation  of the repository! Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 23:10 +0200
  Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation  of the repository! Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2015-09-06 17:40 +0200
  Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation  of the repository! David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-09-06 18:40 +0200

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