Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

[Oliver Rother <rother@physik.uni-kiel.de>]

Art Edwards wrote:

> Unless such core pieces as the debugging tool (ddd) and the data display tool
> (xmgrace) are working, it is dishonest to pretend that the 64-bit version 
> is ready for testing. 

ddd and grace are in Debian testing (etch) amd64 and work fine. So where 
exactly is the issue?

We use an mixture of testing and unstable here with the following 
priority setting /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: -2

So, if a package is still brocken in testing (as parts of gnome at least 
at box installation time), we take it from unstable with

apt-get install PACKAGE -t unstable,

including its dependencies.

So far, we observerd no major issues.

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