Re: Policy on bugs present on sarge/woody

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 12-Sep-03, 04:25 (CDT), Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> wrote: 
> but
> isn't - or shouldn't be - testing-proposed-updates for this? 

The proper spelling of "testing-proposed-updates" is "unstable".

Yes, that can me delays in bug fixes in testing due to the way things
are transferred. Such is life. You can:

a) be patient.
b) install the unstable version.
c) 'apt-get source foo' and rebuild the package on your system.


For the vast majority of packages, c) works just fine.

Steve


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