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Re: testing installation bot just plain doesn't like XFree86



Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:50:58PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
>> 
>> but there would be other problems. Like newer libraries wouldn't get into
>> testing, ...

> How do you figure? If it's a newer library that isn't broken, why
> wouldn't it trickle into testing?

If the new library doesn't provide a compatibility package that will
satisfy dependencies in testing, then it won't get into testing until
absolutely everything that depends on it is recompiled.

IMHO that's a bug in the new library.
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