said will trillich, on Apr 8, > > I just installed potato on a laptap, then switched to woody in > > sources/list and did dist-upgrade. Then I went to install emacs19 but it's > > not in woody. So I added the potato line and then installed emacs19. I > > have tons of emacs19 custom lisp that I haven't ported to emacs20 yet. > > so when a package has become extinct (not present in woody, for > example) you manage to get a legacy copy from potato.
not all packages missing from woody are extinct though - some are in stable and unstable, but don't meet the criteria for inclusion in testing. if you really needed such a (non-extinct) package and did not want to install debs from unstable then you would need to get it from the stable stable (sorry!). geordie birch. -- debconf: package "debconf" is not installed or does not use debconf
