[ale] ? about Debian pks held back in upgrade

James Sumners james at sumners.ath.cx
Sun Jan 4 10:52:06 EST 2004


I could be wrong but I believe Mozilla 1.5 is based on the Firebird branch.

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 02:47:38 -0500
Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:51:22PM -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> > Err, it can also mean a broken package or a package with broken
> > dependencies. Your best bet is to check
> > http://bugs.debian.org/<package_name> for more information before manually
> > installing a package that is being kept back. Generally, it is being kept
> > back for a good reason.
> > 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Checked the bug reports and none of it looked to scary.  When 
> finished I installed/upgraded 14+ packages including mozilla from 1.1 to 
> 1.5.  All current with updates/upgrades now :-)  BTW the mozilla 1.5 
> build feels like the fastest of the mozilla builds I have used to date.  
> Only issue I may have with it at this point is with realplayer 8.  More 
> testing before I can be sure.
> 
> Later,
> 
> Jim Seymour
> 


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