On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:11:36PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello, > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' > > > distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable > > > (potato) and the new unstable (sid). New package goes into > > > unstable, and 14 days later, if no bugs were found it goes into > > > testing (woody). For more details, consult the debian-devel > > > archive (search for ``testing to be implemented on > > > ftp-master''). > > > > I also noticed that the woody Packages files for contrib and non-free > > are completely empty. I guess the process isn't complete. > > > > The suggested search didn't return any hits. > > See the followings article and follow-ups: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce-0012/msg00011.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0012/msg01640.html
I guess the search engine's database isn't quite up-to-date. I did find the post by browsing the archives. I had sort of figured it out anyway, but the key paragraph was: In order to make sure testing starts off on the right foot (ie, with fewer RC bugs rather than more, and with consistent packages across architectures, woody will be rolled back to being the same as potato (ie, 2.2r2) before having the testing scripts applied to it. I can certainly appreciate the perils of attempting to do it all at once. Presumably contrib and non-free were just zero'd out completely and will return with the rest of the packages after the 14 day delay. Thanks, Bob -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
