On 18/09/14 09:16, Joe wrote:
You don't say which distribution this is, but it's either testing or unstable. This doesn't happen in stable, but it's fairly regular in unstable. I don't use testing, but I'd have thought this kind of thing was unusual there, as this sort of serious disturbance should be fixed in unstable.
unstable is allowed to contain packages with RC (release-critical) bugs. testing isn't. This can cause trouble when something on which a lot of other packages depend in a version-sensitive way is found to have an RC bug.