Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:37:53PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > The debian-release-* meta-package will Depend or Suggest or Recommend > the packages that were ``known-good'' at the time of release. So you apt-get install debian-release-woody and are forced to install *every* package in woody? This

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-17 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: >On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:37:53PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: >> The debian-release-* meta-package will Depend or Suggest or Recommend >> the packages that were ``known-good'' at the time of release. > >So you apt-get install debian-release-woody and are f

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:46:46PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Julian> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:04:24PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >> What is the benefit of this new frozen stage, instead of just > >> freezing the testing s

Bug#86436: Build-Depends: should vs may

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.1.0, 2001-02-15 | 2.4.2. Package relationships | | | Source packages should specify which binary packages they require to ^^ | be installed or not to be installed in order to build correctly. |

Bug#86436: Build-Depends: should vs may

2001-02-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:34:35AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > | 2.4.2. Package relationships > | > | > | Source packages should specify which binary packages they require to >^^ > | be installed or not to be installed in order