Re: Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster

From	Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster
Date	2019-07-01 22:10 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 02:17:45PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:

> For newbies peeking in, every single one of those 91 incoming
> *upgraded* packages is OVERWRITING... OBLITERATING.. the otherwise
> stable packages that Developers manually tweaked especially for one's
> currently installed Debian release. That's why there's always someone
> to say, *NOOOOO, DON'T DO IT THAT WAY!* Some number of us have been
> there, done that and thus know firsthand just how painfully bad an
> idea it is to do.

This is what VMs are for. Or chroot.
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Re: Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster Rodrigo Olmos <rodrigo.olmos@gmail.com> - 2019-07-01 12:40 +0200
  Re: Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for  Buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-01 16:50 +0200
    Re: Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-01 20:20 +0200
      Re: Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for  Buster Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2019-07-01 22:10 +0200

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