Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Michael@Meding.net wrote:
>Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 14:33 schrieb Colin Watson:
>> Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> wrote:
>> >After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as
>> >obsolete/local.  The Packages file was much smaller than the previous
>> >version.  What's up?
>>
>> It's the transition to the new 'testing' distribution - see the recent
>> archives of debian-devel-announce. woody is now testing, and sid is
>> unstable. If you intend to track unstable, you should probably start
>> referring to it as 'unstable' rather than as 'woody'.
>
>so package updates can't be expected in woody for the next 14 days ?

Not quite. Anthony Towns said that woody's being rolled back to potato,
then having the testing scripts applied to it to bring it up to unstable
minus 14 days or whatever. I don't know exactly how much of that has
been done. From what I understand of testing, though, you should see a
steady trickle of updates to it as packages are determined to be "stable
enough", not a burst every 14 days.

>What about the Xfree packages and the KDE packages since they change in
>a very frequent interval ?

I'm not sure what happens to packages like this. My best guess is that
older versions of the packages are put into testing, which is fairly
easy with package pools, but I'm not somebody who would know for sure.
Read debian-devel, as somebody asked this same question recently.

In any case, as ajt said on debian-devel-announce [1], XFree86 4.0.1
depends on glibc 2.2, and since glibc 2.2 hasn't yet been successfully
built for m68k or arm it can't go into testing yet.

>And, do you know any of these ?

I don't understand what you mean by that sentence, sorry ...

[1] If you're tracking unstable, you REALLY should be reading
    debian-devel-announce. It's low-traffic - a few messages a week -
    and changes that affect unstable in a big way, like the roll-out of
    testing, are announced there. All the questions I've seen recently
    on debian-user about the recent changes have already been answered
    on debian-devel-announce.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]