Re: What's going on with "testing"?
On Tue, 20 May 2003 12:25:39 -0400
David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote:
> I want to say that a couple of packages got forced into testing
> (python2.2 and libvorbis0a come to mind, but I think there are others)
> because several things depended on them directly or indirectly, a
> small number of packages conflicted with the newer versions but
> weren't being updated, and so were holding everything else up.
> There's been a push to try to make testing a little more current, and
> so packages that other packages depended on were pushed in, allowing
> more things to move into testing as well, even though they broke other
> packages' dependencies.
So what should the ordinary not-terribly-expert user do, just keep doing
apt-get upgrade as usual in the hope that it will eventually sort itself
out?
- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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