On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:

> On Friday 30 April 2010 06:16:22 James Stuckey wrote:
> > The unstable/sid doesn't have to be comment out. Setting the default
> >  release will keep the system tracked to, in this case, testing.
>
> Er, mostly.
>
> If there is a versioned dependency that can be satisfied from sid but not
> testing, you will get the package from sid.  This shouldn't happen given
> the
> way testing is managed, unless you installed at least one package from sid.
>
> > How did the packages  from sid get installed in the first place? If
> you're
> > tracking something, you have to give it an explicit "aptitude install -t
> >  sid <package>" command, right?
>
> With the official testing and sid repositories that should be true.  It
> would
> only happen if someone manually fixed up testing and did it wrong.
> --
>

I installed eclipse from sid, since there isn't eclipse in testing.

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