On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:16:29AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > I've noticed that since I upgradeed to woody, dselect thinks that a > number of packages are now obsolete. > > The versions I currently have installed are from potato, but on > searching for the packages at search.debian.org, it suggests that there > should be more recent versions available, but apt-get update doesn't > make a change with these. > > > amonst these packages are (interestingly) > > lilo (!) > version 21.4.3-2 installed > version 1:21.6-2 available according to debain web site > > why are these version numbers in such a different form and why isn't > this second version available?
a few broken packages somehow leaked into testing (woody) by way of some bug in the testing script. the release manager has deleted these broken packages. lilo has about half a dozen release critical bugs because it blows away config files without asking and renders machines unbootable. (at least they are still showing up in the RCB list) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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