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Re: Status of Galeon in testing?



On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:43:57AM -0500, stan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:49:14PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >   $ grep-excuses galeon
> >   galeon (- to 1.3.11a-2)
> >       Maintainer: Mark Howard
> >       2 days old (needed 2 days)
> >       out of date on arm: galeon (from 1.3.3.20030419-1)
> >       out of date on sparc: galeon (from 1.3.10-3)
> >       Not considered
> > 
> > See debian-arm, debian-sparc, debian-gtk-gnome, etc.
> 
> Let me see if I understand.
> 
> So, it's broken on the arm, and sparc architctures? If that's it, can you
> explain why that prevents it from making it into the 1386 archive?

We want to keep architectures in sync on testing. For example, it makes
security updates a complete nightmare if architectures are out of sync.

This is all documented:

  http://www.debian.org/devel/testing/

> Is there some alternative place to get packages that are broken on some
> architectures?

Unstable.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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