Re: PyQt5

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno lun 5 dic 2016 alle 16:54, Urs Liska <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> I don't worry about the stability of Debian testing but would like to 
> be
> somewhat assured about the process of switching to it. IIUC it 
> basically
> boils down to switching the package repositories from stable to 
> testing
> and upgrading with apt-get, isn't it?

Yes, you can find more on the debian wiki.
I updated debian stable to testing only once (it's an upgrade that you 
cannot revert).
The transition was smooth.

> So how high should I consider the risks of substantial complications 
> on
> the way? And would I have a way to have apt do some kind of rollback?

No rollback, as far as I know.

> Maybe there are other risks stemming from the fact that ... my 
> current setup doesn't refer to vanilla Debian only but has been
> tailored by the Mint developers?

I guess more than a risk, but you'd better ask on Mint support channels.

> >  My suggestion is switching to Debian testing.
> >  Why did you choose Linux Mint? Because of desktop environments
> >  alternative to Gnome which were not available in Debian?
>
> Actually I don't really recall what was the trigger for me to switch.
> Maybe I had some issue with the Debian/Gnome setup I had, or I just
> wanted to try out something different after reading about Mint?
> Anyway I chose LMDE, which is a Mint based on Debian instead of Ubuntu
> repositories.
> I liked the Cinnamon desktop, and maybe that wasn't (isn't) available
> under Debian (then)?
>
> If I don't have to fear transition quirks I'd also be open to try out
> others, though.

Cinnamon is available in stable and testing as well:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cinnamon

I would install debian testing from scratch.
What is keeping you from doing so? Migrating your configurations is 
boring?