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Re: Two suggestions for woody release



Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:

> Yes, of course there's apt pin support, but the people we're most 
> concerned about not accidentally running unstable are the ones least 
> capable of figuring out pin support on their own.  So for Thomas's idea 
> to work, there needs to be either an easy interface to allow users to 
> configure this functionality, or a failsafe pin config that does what's 
> needed.  I agree though that as far as raw apt functionality is
> concerned, we seem to already be where we need to be.

My idea works fine with pinning, as long as the config files that the
apt package automatically sets up DTRT.



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