Debian is a bit broken, again...

[Dirk Hohndel]

"Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit123 at gmail.com> writes:

> Subsurface on Debian report:
>
> Dirk introduced a couple of small changes in commit:
> 3b7d68c091ae45b5de0a
> but apparently the GTimeZone related methods are post GLib 2.26, while
> the latest stable for Debian is GLib 2.24:
>
> the issue itself isn't big, but we've been doing silly workaround, for
> stuff like that _all over the place_ (i.e. so that there are no issues
> on older versions).
> most of that have been triggered by that Debian 6.0.4 i have installed here.
>
> today i did  a "aptitude update; aptitude dist-upgrade", but not much
> happened in terms of packages of our interest.
>
> so this is what i got from their website:
>
> Package libglib2.0-0
> squeeze (stable) (libs): The GLib library of C routines
> 2.24.2-1: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips
> mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
> wheezy (testing) (libs): GLib library of C routines
> 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64
> kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
> sid (unstable) (libs): GLib library of C routines
> 2.33.12+really2.32.4-5: alpha amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 ia64
> kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
> sparc64
>
> the other major PITA of course is GTK itself:
>
> Package libgtk2.0-0
> squeeze (stable) (libs): The GTK+ graphical user interface library
> 2.20.1-2: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips
> mipsel powerpc s390 sparc
> wheezy (testing) (libs): GTK+ graphical user interface library
> 2.24.10-2: amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386
> mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc
> sid (unstable) (libs): GTK+ graphical user interface library
> 2.24.10-2: alpha amd64 armel armhf hurd-i386 i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64
> kfreebsd-i386 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390 s390x sparc sparc64
>
> forcing users to upgrade packages manually is a option, but they can
> get into trouble with that.
>
> all that is a bit sad of course, given debian is supposedly in top5
> most used distros.
> ..what doesn't make any sense _at all_ is that Windows is more up to
> date, in terms of "stable" than Debian for the Gnome packages...

Debian stable is so outdated that it is not even funny.

At this point I consider it broken and I'm ok with that.

/D