Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?
- To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?
- From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:22:23 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20070801022223.GA11305@alpaca>
- Mail-followup-to: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:07:44PM +0200, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> was heard to say:
> stable (pinned at 500): foo=1.0 [Depends: bar>=1.0], bar=1.0
> testing (pinned at 200): foo=1.2 [Depends: bar>=1.2], bar=1.2
>
> If the user says: apt-get install foo=1.2, apt won't be smart enough to find
> out it needs to upgrade bar as well. Same for aptitude or any other
> front-end, making pulling packages from testing or experimental a pain.
That's actually not true in aptitude.
Daniel
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