Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?
Kevin Coyner wrote:
> O.k., so it seems as if libc6 has moved to testing and that packages.d.o
> is just a bit behind. No problem.
>
> But I guess I'm still a bit surprised that this upgrade forced me to
> uninstall php4 (at least the forced uninstall is better than simply
> breaking it). Anyway, I need to run php. Am I correct in assuming that
> if I want to run php4, I'll have to
>
> apt-get -t unstable install php4
>
> and that if I do this, that it will seek out all of the upgrade
> dependencies it needs from unstable. For example, if I check the
> dependencies of php4 unstable, I see that it requires apache-common
>>1.3.27, yet my current testing version is 1.3.26-1.1. So will this
> automatically get updated to unstable too? And perhaps further
> dependencies down the line as well, in essence making this box a sid
> box?
>
> Sorry for the detailed and probably somewhat obvious question, but I
> switched over to Debian last summer, and am loving it. But this is the
> first time I've encountered this type of situation where a testing
> package upgrade (libc6) caused an incompatitibility with another testing
> package, in the case php4. Perhaps that's why they call it testing?
>
There was an announcement two days ago or so in Debian-Devel. It was
mentioned that there would be some problems with a number of packages for a
while. Specifically mentioned was php4 as I recall. The recommendation was
to either wait a couple of weeks or so to do updates, or to install php4
from unstable.
The announcement was aprox 30 hours before the libc6 move to testing.
Paul
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