[plug] Debian broken

[Bret Busby]

Hello, everyone.

I have been running Debian sarge (more or less).

With a recent upgrade, I have now found that the USB on the computer no 
longer works (printer and camera no longer "found"), and I do not know 
what else has gone wrong with the system.

I recently tried to do a system update, using Synaptic, before the 
release of Debian 4, and found that 23 packages were to be replaced, 
and, with the imposition of shaping, would have taken probably a couple 
of days, so I left it.

Then, Debian 4 was released.

Due to things going wrong with the software, I tried to do a system 
update with Synaptic, just now, and, in checking the packes to be 
deleted, etc (the 23 packages to be updated, apparently, no longer 
applies), it appears that Synaptic intends to massacre my system (gnome 
to be deleted, but not replaced, etc).

Is it possible to update sarge, and, if so, how, or, has it been written 
off by Debian?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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