On 19.04.2012 22:20 shirish शिरà¥à¤· wrote: [..] > As an aside though, I do have another query though, in your first > reply you had spoken about > > "on a mixed Debian stable/testing/unstable system " . Was that because > of the policy ? > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), > (1, 'experimental') > > or something else. Because what I try to do is have the highest > version of each and every package in sid. The other releases are just > for me to check on what version numbers others are at (info. which > is/can be handy at times.) . Also if I do get some nasty update then > can switch to the testing or stable versions of software if need be > till it gets fixed (hasn't had to use that for a long time since > apt-listbugs does it job well). > > Just thought I would mention it so there's no confusion.
Thanks for clarifying, Shirish. Indeed the APT policy report is what made me think you may have a mixed stable/testing/unstable system. Take a look at rmadison (package "devscripts") for a way to easily determine version numbers of various distros and releases. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
