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Re: libc6/php4 testing



Michael Meskes wrote:
> Testing was created so we have something like a release candidate
> continously evolving. So shouldn't that mean testing is in an
> installable state all the time? But for several days now it is not.
> libc6 in testing collides with php4 (<< 4.2.3-5) and php4 in testing is
> 4.2.3-3. Isn't this a situation that should never happen? Or is this a
> bug in one of the scripts? Or am I just making a mistake here?
After a couple of thousands of complaints about glibc not entering testing it
was forced into testing even though it was not quite ready.
This was amply discussed on d-d and was actually announced:

>From Anthony's announcement on d-d-announce:
> php4 will be broken on all architectures. This will be fixed by the
> removal of the Conflicts: line from the libc6 packages in a forthcoming
> revision. It can be worked around by not upgrading until that version of
> libc6 is available; by upgrading to php4 from unstable; or by manually
> forcing the dependencies (and not using apt).

Cheers

T.

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