On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:09:10PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> >Nah, it's the other way around: one of the php3 binaries in testing
> >doesn't work with the postgresql in unstable, and the php3 in unstable
> >doesn't work with the postgresql in testing; ditto some other php3 binary
> >and apache, and a few other similar things. It gets quite complicated :)
> Is the automatic system capable of handling that (when the versions in
> unstable work together)? or will it need manual intervention?
Nominally the former, but generally the latter. Most of the confusing
transitions like this don't get the point where eveything works together
completely, so I usually end up allowing some part of it to break. (At
least, that's been the case with X4, gcc, and Gnome)
Cheers,
aj
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