Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:40:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:13:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
>
> > IIRC, there was an indication a while back that Gnome2 was being
> > manually forced through into Testing.
>
> No, it's not.
I sit corrected then.
> The components that have so far been upgraded were upgraded entirely
> automatically. The dependencies within the GNOME 2 packages are simply
> not strict enough to prevent (say) gnome-panel being installed into
> testing with an older gnome-control-center
Would this not constitute a bug?
> (and it's possible that they can't be, which is why releases aren't
> automatic either ...).
I find it hard to believe that the dependancies for the Gnome packages
couldn't have been set to stop this from happening.
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Jamin W. Collins
To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying it's best night
and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any
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