Regarding Paul's problem:
I've gone over the debian-devel list. The problem appears to be that,
when Woody was changed from unstable to testing, all packages were
downgraded to Potato (sane, since that was the stable release, and testing
should NOT have unstable packages). However, anyone running a woody
system would not have their systems downgraded, just it would quit
upgrading packages until newer ones became available. Unfortunately, debconf
in woody has never been upgraded from potato. the debconf that was in woody
before the downgrade is incompatible with some of the new apt/dpkg/dselect packages,
which caused the sudden downgrades of many packages (not just apt/dpkg/
dselect).
This is because unstable and woody are somewhat out of sync - the packages
in unstable had never been tested with the old debconf, so no bugs were
filed against it.
A new version of debconf, has gon into testing to fix the problem, so people can
upgrade / install what got de-installed. The maintainers appear to be
taking the lesson to heart, and, as testing continues to evolve, it should
not happen again. Having said that, it IS testing - this was a test :).
Remember, if you want a stable Debian, run Debian Stable.
jeff
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Thought for today: creep v.
To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In
hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness,
evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.
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