Re: lots (ok, a few) of packages with -woody and -sarge versions

[iain d broadfoot <ibroadfo@cis.strath.ac.uk>]

* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 06:51:01PM +0000, iain d broadfoot wrote:
> > packages whose version ends with woody or sarge take precedence over the
> > _real_ packages, and so try to downgrade other libs and such...
> 
> The real packages? They *are* the real packages. There's a strict
> version comparison algorithm which everything uses. I'm not sure what
> you're talking about here; an example might help.

sorry, my anti-verbose hat was on. :p

running a testing/unstable box.

i just did a apt-cache policy on each of the packages in question, and
the woody/sarge versions are from marilat, not debian.

oopsy!

my bad, and also my problem.

sorry for my temporary luserity,

iain

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