Re: Obsolete binaries
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:36:32AM +0100, Adeodato Sim? wrote:
> in the case of gambas, and AIUI, whether they get removed or not is
> not relevant for it migrating to testing (since there is no gambas in
> testing). but most of times, having old packages lying around
> effectively prevents packages from migrating (that is, if the obsolete
> packages are present in testing).
This is wrong, whether or not packages are in testing does not matter.
See [1], the testing propagation scripts only check whether all binary
packages for release-architectures in unstable are in sync with the
latest source in unstable. So an obsolete (old) binary package in sid
will always prevent propagation (unless it's hurd or sh).
--Jeroen
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/09/msg00002.html
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