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

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On 09/06/2015 11:45 AM, Joe wrote:

> 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.
>
> OK, I've got it down to 120 packages stuck, almost all KDE and
> libreoffice, but with another small logjam around aptitude and
> synaptic. I did hit a small jackpot, upgrading one minor package which
> brought more than a dozen other packages with it, packages which
> themselves wouldn't upgrade without a lot of grief. I have in the past
> fixed logjams of twenty or thirty packages simply by doing the upgrades
> in the correct order, a level of complexity beyond aptitude, but this
> lot isn't going to go so easily. Things are improving, about a week ago
> there were more than two hundred stuck, and as you say, all the
> compiler-related stuff has cleared.

I also can not get a full upgrade in upstream while holding gimp, but I 
can make the list of upgrades smaller by using 'aptitude update && 
aptitude safe-upgrade'.  By the way gimp is a recommended package and 
should be installable soon. X
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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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