Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:20:20AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> libfoo version 2-1 isn't allowed to enter testing since this would make
> myprog uninstallable in testing
>
> myprog 5-2 isn't allowed to enter testing since this would make myprog
> uninstallable in testing.
>
> These two packages need to go into testing at the same time, and the way
> the testing scripts currently work this means they need manual hinting.
>
It looks like the logic is correct for the testing scripts, but it gets so
much more complicated when there are 30+ packages interacting with each
other.
> * it isn't consistent in all respects; e.g. although the package
> dependencies might have been fulfilled, it contained for some time a
> strange mixture of GNOME 1 and GNOME 2
I'm pretty sure that was because of hinting.
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