On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:41:18PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > By the way... what about updating apt 0.6 in experimental? Matt, any > plans? Ubuntu ships apt 0.6.35, but Debian still has 0.6.25.
I have tried in the past to keep an updated apt in experimental, but it's non-trivial because of the dependent packages. That is, I would upload apt to experimental, along with python-apt+aptitude+synaptic+libapt-pkg-perl+etc. (versioned as NMUs). Then, new versions of these packages would be uploaded to unstable, which would supersede the versions I uploaded and cause them to be removed from experimental. This made the experimental apt significantly less useful, since most folks couldn't install it without removing these other packages (which they want to keep), unless they did the rebuilds themselves. One way around this would be for all of the maintainers of packages depending on apt to agree to a significant version number increment when moving to apt 0.6; then such versions could remain in experimental without being removed. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
