Re: A suggestion for the woody freeze

["Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists" <tpo2@sourcepole.ch>]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> >>"Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
>
>  Adrian> Then there comes the new upstream version of a package a
>  Adrian> frozen package depends on and this breaks the frozen package.
>
> 	I think this is a flaw, then. ALl packages that a frozen
>  package depends on also need to be frozen.

Ack!!!

> I understand that would
>  make staged freezes harder to implement;

IMO not. You just need to have a means to "tag" packages that a fozen
package depends on frozen as well. That can be automatic.

*t

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