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Re: Testing problems



Anthony Towns writes:
 > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
 > >    A problem I'm commonly finding with testing (the distribution, not
 > > the process) is that packages get moved into testing, whilst things
 > > they have a versioned dependancy on are still in unstable. 
 > 
 > "commonly" ?
 
Well, OK. The last two times I've upgraded my system this has
happened. This time, logrotate, squid and tex were the important
things that broke.
 
 > This happens only when I break things (twice now, once this week, once
 > some months ago), or when testing decides to allow some things to break
 > in favour of fixing other things (at least as many packages have to get
 > fixed as break).

Right.

Matthew

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