Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: >> The reason is that the unstable packages seem to have the assumption >> built into them that they will never be used on a stable distr system >> -- that is they have dependencies on later versions of basic >> packages. > >This has irritated me for years now. It's mainly a problem because >the Debian system seems to be based on the assumption that new >releases will come every few months, when they actually happen every >few *years*.
Nope, the Debian system is based on the assumption that dependencies ought to describe what binary packages actually depend on. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
