On 2013-04-02 09:50:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > > > There are various problems with experimental, in particular dependencies > > are not necessarily listed, > > Huh? I have no clue what you could possibly be talking about, unless > you're just saying that some packages in experimental are critically > buggy.
This was said in some Debian mailing-list. Not sure whether this is done on purpose or this was meant to be a bug. > > and upgrade from an experimental package is not supported (it generally > > works, but the maintainer doesn't have to take that into account). > > This is a bizarre statement to me. Why would you not take that into > account as a maintainer? I always have for everything I've uploaded to > experimental. IIRC, this was about a package that took care of an upgrade in its postinst script (something like that), but the maintainer didn't consider upgrade from experimental versions. There was also this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544480 which was closed immediately (and has never been fixed), just because some package from experimental was installed. The user is required to correct the installation manually. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130403110705.gj31...@xvii.vinc17.org
