On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:26:30PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:09:21PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Um, sure, but it _is_ a bug, right? That is, if apt moves to unstable > > >> in the current state (ABI change, no version change), then it will be > > >> officially broken.
> > > It will be broken *only* with respect to packages in experimental. > > I don't understand this -- if a package in experimental has an > > ABI-change from the version in unstable, but no accompanying version > > change, and that version is moved from experimental is moved to > > unstable, it will have the _same_ bug, but this time in unstable (and > > will break packages in unstable etc). > This is *not* what happened. The version of apt in experimental *did* have > a version change from the version in unstable. Subsequently, a version was > uploaded to apt which used the same version as had previously been in > experimental, but with a different ABI. Sorry, let's try this sentence again with less mad-libbing. Subsequently, a version was uploaded to unstable which used the same version as had previously been in experimental, but with a different ABI. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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