Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:11:36PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello, > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' > > > distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable > > > (potato) and the new unstable (si

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' > > distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable > > (potato) and the new unstable (sid). New package goes into > > unstable, and 14 days later, if no b

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:18:11PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello, > > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > > obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > > version. What's up? > >

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>What about the Xfree packages and the KDE packages since they change in >>a very frequent interval ? > >I'm not sure what happens to packages like this. My best guess is that >older versions of the packages are put into testing, wh

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 14:33 schrieb Colin Watson: >> Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as >> >obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous >> >version. What's up

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Defresne Sylvain
Hello, * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > version. What's up? It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' distr

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Michael Meding
Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2000 14:33 schrieb Colin Watson: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > >obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > >version. What's up? > > It's the transition to t

Re: Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as >obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous >version. What's up? It's the transition to the new 'testing' distribution - see the recent archives of debian-deve

Today's woody update -- obsolete/local packages

2000-12-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous version. What's up? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen