Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:39:23PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Woo hoo! Testing is once again thoroughly hosed. > > "thoroughly hosed" ? Nice to see were not running short on the hyperbole. > > Do you have anything specific to report that hasn't already been reported? > Or anything useful to say at all?
Some, but not all gnome packages were migrated into testing. The ones not migrated were not considered release candidates at all. Some of the packages migrated into testing depend on the non-migrated packages. Those packages cannot be installed: that is, the dependency graph of the packages in testing cannot be satisfied. This is *never* appropriate; the dependency graph should always be able to be satisfied. I complained about this issue the last time. Merely migrating individual packages will not work, because package dependencies will not be satisfiable if this is done. Whenever a package A is not migrated from unstable into testing, all the packages which depend on that version must also not be migrated. The testing archive does not seem to be maintained according to any coherent global methodology. There is attention to migrating particular packages into testing, but not to the overall structure of the archive. Or, if there is attention, it's not actually preventing quite serious problems. Thomas
