Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:02:26PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:26:35AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:22:20AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> > > KDE is a very complex package. There were all types of problems.
> > > It ran fine in unstable, but you can't promote to testing unless
> > > you can compile it in testing, ;-) and have all libs available.
> >
> > Actually, at the moment, a package doesn't have to be buildable in
> > testing in order to be promoted to testing. This is kind of a bug, but
> > it's hard enough to get things into testing as it is sometimes ...
>
> I'll just quit trying to explain these things. I'm obviously not good at
> typing quickly while trying to remember what it was that was going on in
> debian-kde. I actually _read_ a few of the threads on the subject, but I
> don't seem to remember it, :-)
What you said is certainly how a number of people think it *should*
work, though, so don't worry. In fact, I think the release manager
expressed similar sentiments at one point, but there are conflicting
practicalities to consider too. :-/
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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