Am 03. Jun, 2005 schwätzte Derek Neighbors so:
> Minor point I have made on the list before. Running dist-upgrade
> especially on testing and unstable can be VERY dangerous if you are not
> tracking the development of Debian. Look through the archives of this
Can be, but testing usually works just fine :).
> list alone to see the number of people that come crying after performing
> that operation and walk away not liking Debian. Hans is 100% correct
> that it does need to be run once in a while to get the "good stuff". I
> strongly suggest first running apt-get upgrade then doing an apt-get -u
> dist-upgrade and see what packages it wants to pull. Possibly even
> research and make sure they don't have massive crippling bugs filed
> against them. ; )
Also ask the debian bot on the debian IRC channel about current breakage.
I wasn't happy with apt-listbugs, but it's been a couple of years since I
tried it.
ciao,
der.hans
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