dpkg error on apt-get upgrade

Dave Mason dmason-bqArmZWzea/GcjXNFnLQ/w at public.gmane.org
Sat Oct 23 18:43:49 UTC 2010


On 2010-Oct-22, at 14:38 , Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>> No, but won't sid/unstable eventually become sid/testing and sid/ 
>> testing eventually become sid/stable and be a release?
>
> No sid is always unstable.  unstable never converts to testing.
> Individial packages migrate from unstable to testing.
>
> sid/unstable is where new development happens.  It is not where a  
> future
> release is happening.  testing is where a future release is being  
> worked
> on by moving in the packages that look good from unstable.

Got it.  Thanks.

I would argue that unstable shouldn't have a name, but I'm not  
Debian.org, so wht I'd do is irrelevant!

../Dave
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