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Re: testing & stable: vanished packages?



Joseph Haig wrote:
> --- 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 .)
>>
> 
> 
> I was just starting to wonder the same thing.  After trying
> unsucessfully to install 'testing' from scratch I found that the only
> reliable way is to install 'stable' first and then upgrade.  More
> recently I found, like you, that some packages are not available in
> 'testing' and I suspect that this is why some of my installs didn't
> work.  For the sake of getting things to work I have started including
> both 'stable' and 'testing' in my /etc/apt/sources.list file, but I'm
> sure this isn't the right thing to do.

The right thing to do depends on what you want.  If you don't want
things to break use stable.  If you can deal with breakage, and
absolutely have to have software in testing, use testing.



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