8.10 Updates damaging applications

John L Fjellstad john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org
Mon Feb 23 05:17:01 UTC 2009


Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> writes:

>>  Packages
>>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>      4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid2 0
>>         500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main 
>
> This one was what Bret had in his Synaptic history, and I thought we
> were still talking about that.
>
> Given that it is important to Bret that this computer works (to the
> point that he thinks about running Ubuntu 8.04 instead of 8.10, and
> rightly so) I am not sure that he wants to enable backports :)

Sorry, probably my fault. I missed that he was talking about 4.1.  I
know there was a number of KDE packages that came in on -updates just
before 4.2 hit -backports too (about a day before, I think).  And there
was some breakage here too (for instance, all the f-keys stopped
working).

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
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