What Happened To Debian
by kevinbenko from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4Y34X)
I started using Debian, exclusively, in 2005 (during Woody).
After a few months, I upgraded to Sarge, and after a few months, I upgraded to Testing. Then a few months later, I DOWNGRADED back to Sarge. At that point, everything still worked perfectly.
I had to do a reinstall in the late Autumn 2011, due to a bad script I had written that had started to delete my /usr directory (my fault).
Prior to that point, I had only upgraded everything normally, and everything had always worked perfectly.
However, it seems to me, that Debian has had some problems with packages acting "weirdly" after an upgrade (PS: I have used Testing since 2008). And recently, I had to do another reinstall because a package was "broken" and was affecting another package that I could not remove, nor could I do an update.
So, the question is, what happened to Debian since 2011?
PS: In my opinion, Debian is still one of the best distributions in Linux today (Slackware is included with the one of the best Linux distributions)
PPS: Downgrading was possible in 2006... not advisable but still possible. In 2020 it is absolutely not advisable.
After a few months, I upgraded to Sarge, and after a few months, I upgraded to Testing. Then a few months later, I DOWNGRADED back to Sarge. At that point, everything still worked perfectly.
I had to do a reinstall in the late Autumn 2011, due to a bad script I had written that had started to delete my /usr directory (my fault).
Prior to that point, I had only upgraded everything normally, and everything had always worked perfectly.
However, it seems to me, that Debian has had some problems with packages acting "weirdly" after an upgrade (PS: I have used Testing since 2008). And recently, I had to do another reinstall because a package was "broken" and was affecting another package that I could not remove, nor could I do an update.
So, the question is, what happened to Debian since 2011?
PS: In my opinion, Debian is still one of the best distributions in Linux today (Slackware is included with the one of the best Linux distributions)
PPS: Downgrading was possible in 2006... not advisable but still possible. In 2020 it is absolutely not advisable.