differences in package versions

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Oto Magaldadze wrote:
> hi,
> 
> gnome-keybinding-properties wouldn't start on fresh install of squeeze.
> The reason turned out to be different versions of gnome-packages within
> gnome bundle itself. For instance, gnome-desktop-environment version was
> 2.26 while
> gnome-session 2.28 (or something like that) etc. So I added sid repos to
> upgrade all Gnome
> related packages to v 2.28 and that fixed problem. I have faced this
> kind of
> problem secondly so far, various gnome-packages are of different
> versions in synaptic. Last time gnome-screensaver wouldn't start because
> gnome-session was of different version from that of screensaver's one. 
>  Why would maintainers upgrade some packages of gnome to newer version
> while leaving others on the old ones in testing ?! That should always
> cause troubles.

Packages migrate to testing one by one unless they have dependencies/breaks that
make them migrate together. We only do that when necessary and not
automatically, and if we miss one (like the gnome-screensaver dependency on
gnome-session) you may have issues. That happens all the time in testing and is
what testing is for. You may want to try using unstable directly.

Cheers,
Emilio

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