On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:43:57AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:49:14PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > $ grep-excuses galeon > > galeon (- to 1.3.11a-2) > > Maintainer: Mark Howard > > 2 days old (needed 2 days) > > out of date on arm: galeon (from 1.3.3.20030419-1) > > out of date on sparc: galeon (from 1.3.10-3) > > Not considered > > > > See debian-arm, debian-sparc, debian-gtk-gnome, etc. > > Let me see if I understand. > > So, it's broken on the arm, and sparc architctures? If that's it, can you > explain why that prevents it from making it into the 1386 archive?
We want to keep architectures in sync on testing. For example, it makes security updates a complete nightmare if architectures are out of sync. This is all documented: http://www.debian.org/devel/testing/ > Is there some alternative place to get packages that are broken on some > architectures? Unstable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]