Re: How things get (into|screwed up) in testing

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:48:31PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote:
> I've just been doing an upgrade from potato to woody.
> 
> It's striking how many dependency problems are caused by multi-binary
> packages.
> 
> For example, libdb2 and libdb2-util, although built from the same source
> package, have different and mutually incompatible versions in woody.

[cjwatson@auric ~]$ madison libdb2 libdb2-util | grep testing
    libdb2 | 2:2.7.7.0-1 |       testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc
libdb2-util | 2:2.7.7.0-1 |       testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc

> The same is true of gnome-control-center & libcapplet,

[cjwatson@auric ~]$ madison gnome-control-center libcapplet0 | grep testing
gnome-control-center | 1:1.4.0.1-13 |       testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc
libcapplet0 | 1:1.4.0.1-13 |       testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc

> apt & apt-utils,

[cjwatson@auric ~]$ madison apt apt-utils | grep testing
       apt |      0.5.3 |       testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc
 apt-utils |      0.5.3 |       testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc
        
(Apologies for the long lines.)

> and many others.
> 
> Would it not be a good idea to modify the unstable->testing system so that
> either *all* packages built from a source package get in, or none do?

That's exactly what happens. I think you have some other problem.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]