Stable volatile versions
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Last night I was attempting to install spamassassin on my Lenny box. I
had some difficulty doing so because it turned out that the volatile
version had a lesser version number.
The only ways I found to get the volatile version to install was to pin
the volatile repo to > 1000. I then found that this is the same case
with tzdata. Here are examples:
tzdata:
Installed: 2010a-0lenny1
Candidate: 2009l-0lenny1.1
Version table:
*** 2010a-0lenny1 0
500 http://ftp.grokthis.net lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2009l-0lenny1.1 0
1001 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages
spamassassin:
Installed: 3.2.5-2+lenny1.1~volatile1
Candidate: 3.2.5-2+lenny1.1~volatile1
Version table:
3.3.1-1~bpo50+1 0
1 http://ftp.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages
3.2.5-2+lenny2 0
500 http://ftp.grokthis.net lenny/main Packages
*** 3.2.5-2+lenny1.1~volatile1 0
1001 http://volatile.debian.org lenny/volatile/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Why are volatile versions made in a way so that using them is a
"downgrade"? Is it possible that a Lenny point-release has obsoleted a
volatile version of a package?
Something just did not seem right about this...
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