[rt-users] RT 3 and Debian :-)

[Rasmus Brøgger]

Bradley Bell wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 16:43, Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
>>On May 31, 2004, at 2:16 PM, jamie baddeley wrote:
>>
>>>Which is what I've done (db on woody). Also, Thanks to the excellent
>>>design of RT, and the superfurryanimal powers of debian, it was 
>>>possible
>>>to quickly change front ends (s/sid/sarge/g) with no hassle. (i.e
>>>migrate local hacks etc).
>>
>>Uh, that's...
>>                        This APT has Super Cow Powers.
>>
>>(From apt-get -V)
>>
>>;-)
> 
> 
> and don't forget apt-get moo!
> !!!!
> 
> -brad
> 
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In my honest oppinion you should not use neither Debian Testing(Sarge) 
nor Unstable(Sid). And _if_ you "upgrade" to Sarge/Sid lock your system 
and only update critical security related patches. If you continue to 
upgrade Sarge/Sid you will stay on the bleeding edge, and you will run 
into problems with broken packages. And if you run into broken 
dependencies you need somewhat more knowlegde than the normal Debian 
sysadm to correct the errors. Remember that both Sarge and Sid is beta 
software (No offence).

If you wish to stick to Debian, consider using backported applications 
(see http://backports.org, http://apt-get.org or 
people.debian.org/~<user> sites). You will however run into some 
problems conserning mod_perl and perl versions, but it's quite easy to 
resolve.

And there's one more no-go. Don't install Sarge/Sid packages into Stable 
unless you know what you're doing. It backfires over time.

My 5 cents

/rhb