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Re: Why do experimental packages (e.g. clang-13) get in unstable?



On 2022-01-15 18:33:23 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 14 ian 22, 15:37:21, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:56:19AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > So clang-13 1:13.0.1~+rc1-1~exp4 testing is in testing/unstable,
> > > but the changelog says:
> > > 
> > > llvm-toolchain-13 (1:13.0.1~+rc1-1~exp4) experimental; urgency=medium
> > 
> > Because despite what the changelog or the version string say, the
> > maintainer uploaded that version to unstable:
> > 
> > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1293514/accepted-llvm-toolchain-13-11301rc1-1exp4-source-into-unstable/
> 
> In this particular case yes, though as far as I know it's possible that 
> a Maintainer re-uploads the same package to unstable after it's been 
> uploaded to experimental first.

Thanks. I think I'll have to rely on what "apt-show-versions -a"
says to be sure that it has really been in unstable.

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