Hi folks, there is a thing, I cannot understand.
>From time to time, there appear packages, which are in stable for a long time, and then suddenly they are in unstable and stable, but NOT in testing. This is a policy, I do not understand! An actual example is "cqrlog" which appears in stable and sid, but not in testing. For my feeling, I would expect "cqrlog" in testing, too, maybe in the same version as in stable, but not fully disappeared. Debian's way is not quite clear for me, and IMO I think it not a good idea, to let packages silently disappear. At this point, I may be wrong. Thinking of this let me think of another point, which has never been clear for me since years: When I install a new system, and I want to run testing, then you MUST also add the repo for stable in the sources.list, otherwise packages you might want to use, are missing (due to the policy above). I searched the manuals for this point, but this was nowhere mentioned. Of course, you may say, that this is self-evident, but people might want to have the repo small and may think, "hey, if I get testing, then all packages of stable will be available as well." Anyway, maybe someone might enlighten me (and maybe others, too as well) of that. Thank you for all your answers and the great work. Best Hans