On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Lars Wirzenius <l...@liw.fi> wrote: > 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.
Something that might work would be to keep the old source/binary packages around (as well as the new ones) until nothing depends on them. IIRC the release team have the ability to (temporarily) have multiple versions of a source package in testing, perhaps something like that could be added for sid. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- 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/AANLkTi=fogd2owavjejlfkn8vik0d64gmn17acw8k...@mail.gmail.com
