Re: Is the stable/unstable split broken?
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ian Jackson wrote:
> * You have to figure out the dependencies yourself. dpkg will stop
> you getting it wrong, but it won't tell you easily how to get it right
> and you don't get the right packages downloaded automatically. This
> is a deficiency shared by dselect and apt, I believe.
APT 4 has support for mixing unstable/stable packages at quite a fine
level. You can for instance use just python 2 from stable. This support
filters up to dselect, but you cannot change the selection from the
dselect GUI.
Please see a past mail of mine to -devel if you are interested in how that
works, it was linked to by a DWN some time ago.
Jason
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