Hi, > The maintainer think that he does not need to do anything about > that. People should just upgrade all their packages from stable to > testing when r-base-core is upgraded. > Other people (and me) disagree and think that other broken r-related > packages must be either removed or upgraded automatically by apt > when r-base-core is upgraded (due to additional conflicts/breaks/... > declarations)
"Pull this package from Testing because it has feature X which I need", while keeping the rest of the system on Stable, is a common use case. Upgrading a single package should not cause a regression. This is why we have a package management system with dependencies (both positive and negative) in the first place! -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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