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Re: Does partial upgrade between stable and testing must be supported ?



Hi,
>   The maintainer think that he does not need to do anything about
> that. People should just upgrade all their packages from stable to
> testing when r-base-core is upgraded.
>   Other people (and me) disagree and think that other broken r-related
> packages must be either removed or upgraded automatically by apt
> when r-base-core is upgraded (due to additional conflicts/breaks/...
> declarations)

"Pull this package from Testing because it has feature X which I need",
while keeping the rest of the system on Stable, is a common use case.

Upgrading a single package should not cause a regression.
This is why we have a package management system with dependencies
(both positive and negative) in the first place!

-- 
-- Matthias Urlichs

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