On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:10:18PM +0000, iain d broadfoot wrote:
> * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 06:51:01PM +0000, iain d broadfoot wrote:
> > > packages whose version ends with woody or sarge take precedence over the
> > > _real_ packages, and so try to downgrade other libs and such...
> > 
> > The real packages? They *are* the real packages. There's a strict
> > version comparison algorithm which everything uses. I'm not sure what
> > you're talking about here; an example might help.
> 
> sorry, my anti-verbose hat was on. :p
> 
> running a testing/unstable box.
> 
> i just did a apt-cache policy on each of the packages in question, and
> the woody/sarge versions are from marilat, not debian.

Ah, yeah, that would explain it :)

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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