On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:14:16AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When sarge became the stable distribution, I read
> that initially the stable and testing distributions
> are the same but that packages in the testing keep
> upgraded, if I remember correctly. If that's so,
> some packages in the testing will get frequently
> upgraded and others will get upgraded less frequent
> or not at all, but there's no reason why a package
> must be removed, is there? (unless there's a security
> problem or some such serious problem.)
Sure, there is. For instance, what if package foo depends on package bar,
and bar has a release-critical bug and won't ever be included in Testing
until the bug is fixed?
Including packages from Stable will eventually stop working, I suspect. All
it takes is one major change in an important library.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
-Bruce Tognazzini
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