And only btw - we will entering the "stable" sid phase soon (March 12) - it's called deep freeze
- Time to attract people and let them run into open knifes in a few months.
@David: Package removals are one of the reasons why Sid has it's name. That's just the nature of unstable, there will be transitions etc. And one should try to understand that as fast as possible - and get prepared in the sense of knowing the tools like apt and how to gather informations about bugs, transitions, removals etc pp. Otherwise it will be a bitter wake up if debian goes back to regular after the freeze. And we don't count here the so called "normal" packaging or application bugs. Sid can be hard sometimes, deal with it - but thats the nature of every rolling distribution, descriptions like cutting edge or bleeding edge are there for a reason.
Edit: Thanks god, debian is the very mild form of "cutting edge".