On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:33:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > b. They are already kept off testing (if there is a regression), > > so what's the problem? > The problem is that other packages which might depend from a package > which is broken on one architecture will not move into testing. If you > would keep those packages out of unstable you can be sure that you > build your own package based on packages which have all the same version > in unstable. This is the relevant bit of the suggestion. See the lot > of packages which can not enter testing because a dependency is not > fulfilled on a certain architecture. > Ah so, the staging area is for a program with all its dependencies? Isn't testing simply thought for this?
-- Francesco P. Lovergine
