On su, 2011-02-27 at 15:49 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Aren't there any checks in place to prevent a package from becoming > uninstallable? > E.g., bug #615530, #615528.
We don't care if something is temporarily uninstallable in unstable. The only way to prevent that from happening would be to keep packages from entering unstable unless all their dependencies are in unstable already, and that would prevent bug fixes from coming into unstable faster. This is important because a source package might produce several binary packages, and some of them might both be fixing bugs and be uninstallable. Unstable is not guaranteed to work at any one time. Any missing dependencies will get dealt with at release time if not earlier. An attempt to make unstable work better would result in development having more obstacles, and thus becoming slower. That would not be a good thing. -- Blog/wiki/website hosting with ikiwiki (free for free software): http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1298793773.2809.26.ca...@havelock.lan
