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Re: Microrant about package dependencies.



On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:51:39AM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote :
> > On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 11:56:17PM -0700, Doug Holland wrote:
> > > I'll keep it nice and short...

> > > Packages in sid should NOT have dependencies on packages
> > > available only in experimental!  Ethereal maintainers, are you
> > > listening?
> 
> One package didn't install in your daily dist-upgrade ?  Big deal.
> This is unstable.  Things break.  Things are fixed.
[...]

This was not "one package" but a significant part of the Gnome package
uploads in the last days. Also a number of packages have been
misuploaded to sid instead of experimental.
               cu andreas



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