On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 13:43:19 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 07:35:59AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > Hi, > > > I don't know what the intent is in the existence of: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc_4.8.19-1_i386.deb & > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mc/mc-data_4.8.19-1_all.deb > > Those are the packages available and build on unstable. This is a combined > package pool. > > > > especially with 4.8.20 having been released in November, but I downloaded > > manually and installed 4.8.19 with dpkg, and it works just fine compared to > > the > > broken 4.8.18 that had been installed. > > Well someone has to update the package for unstable first. Then it can > migrate at > some point to testing and then someone could build a backport base on this > work. > This does not happen on its own. > > Using the package from unstable can work but it can also break at any time due > changes in libraries.
I can see what you are saying about mixing stable and unstable but don't completely follow it in this case. Only mc and mc-data from unstable are needed and the libraries on stable are sufficient to produce a working mc. Are you suggesting these libraries could be subject to future change? -- Brian.
