Brian Nelson wrote: > Transitions are impossible in experimental because they'll never get > into unstable on their own.
Hmm...given the amount of breakage this transition seems to be causing, it might be worth creating a staging distribution for the purpose of such transitions, so that -unstable doesn't end up being broken for extended periods of time. > > I thought -experimental was where all the > > distribution-breaking changes were supposed to occur... > > No, that's what unstable is for. Experimental is for stuff that isn't > release-ready. Packages being rebuilt for the GCC 4.0 transition *are* > release-ready--they just temporarily break other stuff the archive. Any idea how temporary this particular transition is likely to be? It's been going on for a little while now. I can work around it, by holding back the appropriate packages, but it is something of a pain. I do realize that there are tradeoffs for running in the -unstable branch, but to be honest I didn't expect the possibility of multi-week distribution breakage to be one of them. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
