Em Sáb, 2005-11-12 às 14:47 +0100, Christof Hurschler escreveu: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:21, Johan Kullstam wrote: > > Exactly. I was using "testing" for a while and got tired of losing > > when a package broke and wouldn't get fixed for ages. > > > > Of course, a savvy user could default to testing and drag in unstable > > (with whatever pre-reqs) whenever a breakage occured. Perhaps this > > method could be made more known. > > > Wouldn't pinning work very well in this case to allow a mixed > testing/unstable > system? The trouble packages can then be installed from unstable using the > -t option, with the majority of the rest of the system runs at a testing > level (for example all the non GUI stuff). > The times I tried this, the broken packages never "naturally" got back to testing, they continued following the unstable version even after a version got back to testing. The testing/unstable solution, is usually quite "unstable" (not in the Debian sense, in the programs sense).
Michel.
