David wrote: > Something I've noticed with Testing/Lenny is that packages often > disappear for a short period (a few days or weeks) and then reappear. > A few current examples: xmms and nvidia-glx. If you look on > packages.debian.org they are in unstable and stable, but not testing. > comix was also gone for a while but is back again. >
There are many reasons why a package might not be in testing. I suggest you go to http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/ to figure out why a particular package is not in testing. In your particular example, it seems . xmms is not available in Debian (perhaps removed?). . nvidia-glx is part of the source package nvidia-graphics-drivers which has been in unstable for only 8 days. For packages to trickle into testing, the normal urgency is 10 days. There is also a command called grep-excuses which might be useful. See its man page for more info. $grep-excuses nvidia-graphics-drivers nvidia-graphics-drivers (- to 169.12-1) Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers Section: non-free/x11 Too young, only 8 of 10 days old Ignoring high urgency setting for NEW package nvidia-glx/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: nvidia-kernel-169.12 nvidia-glx/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: nvidia-kernel-169.12 nvidia-glx-ia32/amd64 unsatisfiable Depends: nvidia-kernel-169.12 nvidia-kernel-source (i386, amd64) has new bugs! Updating nvidia-kernel-source introduces new bugs: #432182, #434379, #474734, #462139, #437131, #460441 nvidia-glx (i386, amd64) has new bugs! Updating nvidia-glx introduces new bugs: #441975, #443870, #438409, #461184 Not considered hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]