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Re: Frozen distribution?



On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:37:53PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> The debian-release-* meta-package will Depend or Suggest or Recommend
> the packages that were ``known-good'' at the time of release.

So you apt-get install debian-release-woody and are forced to install
*every* package in woody? This isn't particularly functional, and the
solution already available in apt 0.4 can do all that that can and
more. See http://people.debian.org/~jgg/ for the alpha .debs.

> Is it possible to roll both ideas into one elegant solution that doesn't
> cause the apt team to want me dead? :)

testing, Release files, and apt 0.4.

Cheers,
aj

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