* Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr> [2003-04-07 13:27]:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:48:13AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>> And that's not better, thats even bader. The version in testing _is_
>> 2.3.1-16. The question is, _why_ this is happening. I see that it
>> shows somehow the version of the security updates for testing instead of
>> the testing version on packages.debian.org.
>
> This is inverse from what #153556 wants.
No, it is not. I may cite the title: "as appropriate". apt-get won't
get you version 2.2.5-woody.3 but will get you 2.3.1-16. This is
nothing that I would call "appropriate" for it is counter-intuitive and
counter-realistic. If the version from testing-security would be
actually *newer* I would say yes, it is correct. But it is not.
The current status quo is:
stable | security | packages.debian.org | apt-get | correct
=======T==============T=====================T==============T========
1.0 | n/a | 1.0 | 1.0 | [X]
1.0 | 1.0-stable.1 | 1.0-stable.1 | 1.0-stable.1 | [X]
1.0 | 0.9-stable.1 | 0.9-stable.1 | 1.0 | [ ]
n/a | 1.0-stable.1 | 1.0-stable.1 | 1.0-stable.1 | [x] (1)
Footnote:
(1) Joey would like to see this as an error, too, and packages.d.o
display nothing. On the other hand it would behave differently than
apt-get in that respect.
I don't think that packages.debian.org should work differently than
apt-get. It is not a good idea to have it behave differently. And I
really /don't/ think that this different behavior was the intention of
era's request.
So long,
Alfie
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