[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >But whenever I try to install it, it wants to remove some critical files >from my system first! > > # apt-get install alsa-source > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > alien debhelper dh-make
Those aren't critical (not in the sense that the testing scripts consider, anyway - they might be critical to *you*). As Anthony Towns put it on -devel when this came up recently, 'testing just says everything can be installed, not that everything you might want can be installed /at once/'. The current alsa-source really does need a newer debhelper to work properly, though: see bug #98819. I assume it's a Recommends: so that you're not forced to install debhelper to use other bits of the package. >I thought the idea behind testing was that packages would only go into >testing once all the packages that they needed were also in testing... testing ignores the Recommends: (it's installable without it), and resolves the Conflicts: by assuming that you can remove debhelper in order to install the package. It's not optimal in this case, but is necessary in others. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
