On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:18:11PM +0100, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello, > > * Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > After today's woody update there are many packages shown in dselect as > > obsolete/local. The Packages file was much smaller than the previous > > version. What's up? > > It's because Debian has finally implemented the ``testing'' > distributions. It is a distributions sitting between the stable > (potato) and the new unstable (sid). New package goes into > unstable, and 14 days later, if no bugs were found it goes into > testing (woody). For more details, consult the debian-devel > archive (search for ``testing to be implemented on > ftp-master''). > > So you need to change woody to unstable (of sid) in your > sources.list and to do and apt-get update.
I understand all this, but would have expected the Packages lists to remain static for 14 days, rather than existing packages being dropped. I also noticed that the woody Packages files for contrib and non-free are completely empty. I guess the process isn't complete. The suggested search didn't return any hits. Bob
