Re: Many packages missing from testing
Em Sáb, 2005-11-12 às 14:47 +0100, Christof Hurschler escreveu:
> On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:21, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > Exactly. I was using "testing" for a while and got tired of losing
> > when a package broke and wouldn't get fixed for ages.
> >
> > Of course, a savvy user could default to testing and drag in unstable
> > (with whatever pre-reqs) whenever a breakage occured. Perhaps this
> > method could be made more known.
> >
> Wouldn't pinning work very well in this case to allow a mixed testing/unstable
> system? The trouble packages can then be installed from unstable using the
> -t option, with the majority of the rest of the system runs at a testing
> level (for example all the non GUI stuff).
>
The times I tried this, the broken packages never "naturally" got back
to testing, they continued following the unstable version even after a
version got back to testing.
The testing/unstable solution, is usually quite "unstable" (not in the
Debian sense, in the programs sense).
Michel.
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