That reply didn't reach me but submit@, otherwise I would have known earlier.
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 11:41:16 -0400 =?UTF-8?Q?David_Pr=c3=a9vot?= <da...@tilapin.org> wrote: > Get:14 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 > php5-common all 7.0 [2082 B] > > I donât know why php5-common seems fetched from experimental in your > test environment, but you may wish to investigate. Testing a package from experimental uses apt-get -t experimental install $something Fetching dependencies from experimental usually gets more tests done in experimental, but its not the perfect solution, since it may pick up unneccessary experimental bits. AFAICT apt isn't a perfect sid+experimental dependency solver (or at least I don't know the configuration to make it so) for the case that we have packages a/sid, a/exp, b/sid, b/exp, c/exp and want to install c/exp which depends on a and b, and the only the combination a/sid + b/exp + c/exp would result in a successful installation. a/sid + b/sid + c/exp would fail like a/exp + b/exp + c/exp. And for piuparts it needs to be automatic, while for myself (with wheezy up to experimental enabled in sources.list.d with some pinning) I can use manual dependendy resolution with aptitude :-) Andreas
