Re: testing & stable: vanished packages?

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wondering why some packages aren't available for
> the testing distribution.  For example, I wanted to
> install apcalc (in the math section) but learned that
> it's available only for the unstable and stable
> distributions, not for the testing. (I searched
> at http://www.debian.org .)
> 
> When sarge became the stable distribution, I read
> that initially the stable and testing distributions
> are the same but that packages in the testing keep
> upgraded, if I remember correctly.  If that's so,
> some packages in the testing will get frequently
> upgraded and others will get upgraded less frequent
> or not at all, but there's no reason why a package
> must be removed, is there?  (unless there's a security
> problem or some such serious problem.)
> 

apcalc isn't in testing as it has an RC bug (read: serious problem).

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=apcalc
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=src&data=apcalc&archive=no&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done&sev-inc=critical&sev-inc=grave&sev-inc=serious