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

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

cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
>Michael@Meding.net wrote:
>>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.

I'm wrong. :) Older versions of the packages won't have had the
requisite 14 days of continuous testing in unstable, so they won't go
in. Changes with higher urgency, though, are put into testing after less
than 14 days.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]