Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:18:11PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * 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 because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing''
> distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable
> (potato) and the new unstable (sid). New package goes into
> unstable, and 14 days later, if no bugs were found it goes into
> testing (woody). For more details, consult the debian-devel
> archive (search for ``testing to be implemented on
> ftp-master'').
>
> So you need to change woody to unstable (of sid) in your
> sources.list and to do and apt-get update.
I understand all this, but would have expected the Packages lists to
remain static for 14 days, rather than existing packages being dropped.
I also noticed that the woody Packages files for contrib and non-free
are completely empty. I guess the process isn't complete.
The suggested search didn't return any hits.
Bob
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