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Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

From Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid
Date 2021-10-25 07:40 +0200
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On Du, 24 oct 21, 20:21:49, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 24 Oct 2021 at 13:43:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> 
> > westlake writes:
> > > 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages
> > > have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package.
> > 
> > Packages migrate from Unstable (Sid) to Testing when they have been in
> > Unstable for ten days with no serious bugs being filed and when all
> > dependencies can be satisfied.
> > 
> > > sid is more for development and requires a special setup with
> > > snapshots or a chroot environment.
> > 
> > I've been using Unstable ever since it was created and have never needed
> > to do this.
> 
> Ditto. I have never come across this requirement.

That was probably a bit too specific, I'd reword that as "some fallback 
is highly recommended".

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Ashish Kujur <ashish.kujur2@protonmail.com> - 2021-10-24 06:30 +0200
  Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid westlake <westlake2012@videotron.ca> - 2021-10-24 09:10 +0200
    Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-10-24 20:10 +0200
      Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2021-10-24 20:40 +0200
    Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-10-24 21:00 +0200
      Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-24 21:30 +0200
        Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-25 07:40 +0200
  Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-24 09:40 +0200
  Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-24 13:10 +0200

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