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 out of date on arm: galeon (from 1.3.3.20030419-1)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 out of date on sparc: galeon (from 1.3.10-3)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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