Hi,
On Sat, 2023-08-19 at 11:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> First, I initially wasn't aware that this was assuming usrmerge:
> there was no announce at all. Moreover, doing partial upgrades
> is not breaking the system. This is perfectly allowed. That's why
> there is a dependency system, and here, no Depends or Recommends
> was broken.
No, packages in testing/unstable will expect essential packages to come
from stable or later without explicit versioned dependencies.
If you mix oldstable + unstable packages, you create an unsupportable
system state ("Frankendebian"). If something then breaks, you get to
fix it yourself; don't expect others to support such a setup.
Ansgar
