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Re: Frozen distribution?



On 17 Feb 2001, James Troup wrote:

> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
>
> > > OTOH, if you do fork frozen, then you cause problems on "other"
> > > architectures.  Uploads that are sent to both places ("frozen
> > > unstable" uploads), tend to get autobuilt twice (once for frozen,
> > > once for unstable, which no longer works with katie),
> >
> > Katie should be fixed then.
>
> Err, no, it shouldn't.  Having two versions of a package with the same
> filename but different md5sums & size is a) impossible with pools and
> b) a Very Bad Thing anyway.

I was referring to uploads which are built only once, of course.
Many packages depend on libc6 only. Before katie it was possible to
compile a package in a stable system and upload it for "stable unstable".
If this is now forbidden, then it is a step backwards.



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