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Re: potato->woody upgrade.



Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 06:48:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > There's been a big reorganisation. woody is no longer called unstable (sid
> > is) but testing. It's been reverted to the packages from potato and will
> > be filled up with packages from unstable which don't have (too many)
> > critical bugs. I guess it's again a problem of the PPC autobuilder lagging
> > (if there is even any for testing yet?).
> 
> OK, this one I -refuse- to take the blame for! :)

Hey, I didn't intend to blame you. I only realized after writing this that
testing is much easier now that we have package pools.


> That's not how testing works.  You don't build for testing; you build
> for unstable.  Packages don't move into testing until they have
> sufficiently few RC bugs and build for all released architectures for
> which a previous version built - that means that not much is going into
> testing until we get glibc 2.2 built on arm and m68k, which should be
> soon.

Great.


Michel


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86 and The DRI Project



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