It has been 20 days since last testing branch update, which is a much big delay, since testing update is usually every 7-10 days. Then I go to unstable branch and I get updates every day. I wonder when will a package go to testing branch from unstable branch, why is the testing branch not updating?
For example: linux517 5.17-4, KDE Gear 22.04, Plasma 5.24.4, KDE framework 5.93
Branch compare: Install manjaro-check-repos and type mbn-gui, you can find that testing is equal to stable and has ~2800 packages different from unstable
its what you failed to mention; gnome 42. (iām guessing you are plasma user, well when promoting stuff from unstable to testing it happens to entire repo and not just package groups like gnome, kde, etc.) from the chatter there are lots kinks in gnome 42 yet to be dealt with and pretty sure itāll be available soon.
curious why you moved from unstable to testing back(if you did), because ppl simply move into unstable and stay there, when they see it is all pointless skepticism that kept them away
I didnāt know where to post it. Please, move it to a proper place.
Almost 3 weeks have passed since the last update. Previously, updates were every 5-6 days on average, now nothing. I checked the unstable branch and there are TONS of new packages there, over 2GB of download but nothing is pushed through to testing.
What is happening?
Testing branch became so old and out of date compared to AUR. This could make some updated AUR packages not working. This was normal on stable branch, but testing was usually more or less up to date, but not anymore.
Since when?
Like I said, testing updates were always every few days. I know, because Iām using testing branch a second year now. I donāt recally such big pauses, althought various releases were also happening in that time and nobody was waiting for them, at least it wasnāt visible for the user.
Also, what would be the reason for holdup and syncing with some releases? I get that in order to get all packages and avoid instabiliity, a few days wait is needed, but thatās all. 3 weeks doesnāt sound like waiting for a release.
While I agree itās been a unusually long period between testing updates any programs on AUR that you installed arenāt going to be reliant on when Majaro updates. They will still update and pull in what they need.
Thatās not correct. AUR is aimed only at arch and assumes the most recent version of Arch packages installed.
If stable/testing branch becomes outdated, they do not work anymore and canāt be rebuild because the right dependencies canāt be found because they didnāt land in testing yet.
Exactly. If that happens, the updated AUR package simply wonāt run, because some specific version of library is missing. I have that now with thunderbird-appmenu-bin. I had to downgrade it and I canāt update it without Manjaro update.
Of course, I could switch to unstable and get those updates immediatelly. However, if there is no strong pressure, I prefer to wait for testing. I know from experience that unstable branch can be really unstable (missing complimentery packages, packages with serious bugs/borked, etc.). I had in the past āpleasureā of installing update with buggy package that broke the system. This bug was fixed few hours later so if I had waited those few hours with update, everything would be fine, but noā¦ I wanted to get the latest packages ASAP ;). In a nutshell, unstable branch is OK but advanterous and for those who have more time dealing with occasional issues. Testing branch is much safer and serious bugs tend to occur no more than once a year or so.
Itās amazing that Manjaro has waited at least up to weeks in the past before releasing a new testing update and I have had AUR packages update in the interum and never had them break when Manjaro finally does a testing update.
Have to agree with @Locutus. Maybe Iām just lucky but Iāve been on testing for 2 years and havenāt had any aur breakages yet. I know it can happen of course, i just donāt think it happens very often
In fact, unstable is not so unstable as you think. I often turn to unstable and I never met system crashes. Maybe the true bleeding edge bugs has been solved before pushing into unstable branch.
Well, I also turn on unstable for Plasma releases ;), but then I switch back to testing a few days later.
I was using unstable for many months and yeah, itās doable, but the frequency of various issues was incomparable with testing. Then I decided, I just donāt have time for it and I live happily on testing, which suits me fine.
Of course, all issues can be handled with backups or chroot, so itās not all so bad, but again, one needs to have time. If you really need to work right now and you are restoring backup or browsing forums for searching fixes, you are doing it wrong ;).