Re: My unstable sarge repository on people.debian.org

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 20:04 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> 
> as promised to Ralf, I'm going to continue uploading sarge backports of
> the packages in unstable to http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0.

Thank you.

> - If the version number in testing and sid is the same, I fear aptitude
>   will try to update all the time (I think so because I experience this
>   currently with tetex-bin.  It downloads the file and then does
>   nothing). 

When I updated on wednesday I had no such problems:

$ apt-cache policy tetex-bin
tetex-bin:
  Installed: 3.0-14bpo1
  Candidate: 3.0-14bpo1
  Version Table:
 *** 3.0-14bpo1 0
        500 http://people.debian.org sarge/main Packages
        200 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.0.2-30sarge4 0
        500 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages
     2.0.2-30 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Packages

> - Packages will be built against sarge+backports.org and might therefore
>   acquire dependencies that cannot be satisfied on pure sarge.  I'll try
>   to avoid this by manually compiling tetex-bin (to prevent a dependency
>   on libxaw8), but I can't promise anything.

I haven't yet switched to xorg, but IIRC, there are some interesting
improvements for my graphics card in there, so I might do that in the
near future anyway. I don't think that other dependencies from
backports.org would pose any problem for me.

cheerio
ralf