Firstly, this discussion is extremely off-topic on debian-mentors, debian-project would have been a better choice.
2010/10/12 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[email protected]>: > Now, experimental by default is pinned to lowest priority, and in the > meantime, during the freeze, your friendly packager is still waiting > on the testing package, so updates the experimental package. You may > or may not notice, but because of the low pin priority you won't > automatically upgrade the experimental package that is in effect being > treated as an unstable package by the packager. So perhaps you go and > you change the low pin priority, but you can't really do that easily > because then apt will try to pull in all sorts of assorted crap from > experimental that you really don't want and is genuinely experimental. > Perhaps you're smart enough to deal with this problem automatically, > perhaps you're not and you're stuck closely following the development > of a package that you would be tracking automatically without the > freeze. I use pinning like this everywhere (with stable sometimes set lower and backports in there sometimes). It ensures that if I manually upgrade a package from stable to testing or unstable to experimental, I will automatically get updates from the suite I upgraded to and when the newer version migrates to a lower suite I stop getting updates from the higher suite. I find this very useful on servers that need packages from testing and on unstable machines where I want to test release candidates or snapshots. Package: * Explanation: pabs was here Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 800 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 550 Package: somepkg Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 999 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
