On Mon 22 Jan 2007 16:56:39 NZDT +1300, Hadley Rich wrote:

> > Question 2: why doesn't it work now when it worked 10 days or so ago?
> 
> Testing changes frequently, including package dependencies and the like.

Ah yes, I had come to the same conclusion, though I was wondering given that
one keeps on hearing the nonsense "testing is as stable as other distros'
released finals".

> You may want to look into apt-pinning;
> 
> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

After finding last night some semi-brute-force dpkg -r / dpkg -i combination
which works, I concluded that the problem is in the dependencies only, not
the package content. Will keep looking.

THanks,

Volker

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