Bug#198479: general: package coming to sarge before their dependencies : breaks them.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:21:18AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le Mon 23/06/2003, Colin Watson disait
> > New versions of perl and python and a number of other things were pushed
> > into testing a number of weeks back. This allowed substantial
> > improvements in many packages and unblocked a lot of development work,
> > but unfortunately temporarily made some other things uninstallable. This
> > will be resolved in time.
>
> But why where html2ps and apt-file changed ? would keeping the old
> versions break something else ?
html2ps and apt-file weren't changed. Their dependencies were. Yes,
keeping the old versions was a problem for our (ahem) release cycle.
Both the old and the new versions of the dependencies in question are
uninstallable in testing, so just upgrading them won't help. There's
only so much that testing can do in these circumstances. The particular
problems you mention are being worked on, though.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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