On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:52:47AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:19:47AM +0000, Enrico Zini <[email protected]> was > heard to say: > > Would aptitude actually break if apt-xapian-index were not there, or can > > the dependency be safely relaxed into a Recommends? > The current experimental branch of aptitude does break if > apt-xapian-index isn't available (if I remember correctly, it gets a > NULL database pointer and then segfaults). It should probably be > patched to fall back to another search mechanism, but I haven't gotten > around to doing that yet -- it is beta software after all, and I have > bigger fish to fry. > What I wonder is, why is a package from experimental being installed > by pbuilder? That seems wrong to me.
It's certainly not me doing that, but apparently, if we look at #510224, #513315 and #515791, there's several people who like bootstrapping experimental. What I can guess is that they're testing software that builds on toolchains that are uploaded in experimental for testing before transitions are started. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[email protected]>
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