Nitpicking updates/testing

Carlos Rodrigues carlos.efr at mail.telepac.pt
Fri Jul 30 01:36:12 UTC 2004


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:07:41 +0100, Carlos Rodrigues
> <carlos.efr at mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
> 
>>Aren't packages in updates/testing supposed to be moved to updates?
>>Right now there are some packages there that have long been available in
>>updates (xorg-x11 for instance).
> 
> 
> some packages... sure
> some packages... not so sure
> it depends on what the individual package maintainer's intent for
> releasing the test package is.
> it depends on the problems being reported about the test package, and
> the grey line concerning if new problems being reported against the
> test package are worth inflicting on users of the current packages.

I'm aware of this. What I was saying is that are packages that go into 
updates but aren't removed from testing. The nitpick was about those 
"old" packages.

Carlos





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