Le 23 Aug 2019, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> a écrit :
It was never not available in Sid. This normal for packages,
they are
normally only removed from Testing.
Thanks for clarifying this.
I guess that I was confused by the Debian wiki at
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable The wiki says that Sid
holds the "latest packages":
"Debian Unstable (also known by its codename "Sid") is not
strictly a release, but rather a rolling development version of
the Debian distribution containing the latest packages that have
been introduced into Debian."
I wasn’t aware that it would also have *obsolete* packages that
had been dropped from testing or stable. But of course, those
obsolete packages might still be the "latest packages" available.
That page also describes Sid as a precursor for testing:
"The sequence of package propagation in the Debian development
process is as follows:
→ experimental
→ unstable → testing → stable"
Same logic at https://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ :
"This distribution will never get released; instead, packages from
it will propagate into testing and then into a real release."
Obsolescence however seems to propagate the other way round, which
is also kind of logic indeed. Thanks for pointing it to me!
Victor
