Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote:
>> The reason is that the unstable packages seem to have the assumption
>> built into them that they will never be used on a stable distr system
>> -- that is they have dependencies on later versions of basic
>> packages.
>
>This has irritated me for years now.  It's mainly a problem because
>the Debian system seems to be based on the assumption that new
>releases will come every few months, when they actually happen every
>few *years*.

Nope, the Debian system is based on the assumption that dependencies
ought to describe what binary packages actually depend on.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]