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["Damien Raude-Morvan" <drazzib@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adrian and others,

Le mardi 13 septembre 2011 12:42:54, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> Hi Marcus and Alessandro,
[...]
> Damien, your statement "Given your libc6 version, you seems to be
> running Debian Squeeze (stable). Generally speaking, we don't provide
> support for mixed installation with experimental with stable packages :
> it won't work." is not generally true [1] - it should work.
[...]
> [1] It is even less true in this case, where you are using this as an
>     excuse for not debugging a bug that is also present in a pure unstable.

Andrian, please, don't try to make assomption about what I'm doing or not 
doing. It's annoying and counterproductive : it won't make things fixed faster.

In this particular case : I closed this report (#637337) but keep other one, 
on the same issue but in unstable, open (#638008). So, I have to disagree with 
you : I don't try to hide problem or searching excuse :/

There is two importants things here :

1/ I don't have time to support / give help to people using *stable* with 
*experimental* or *unstable* packages. It's nice if it's work but it's not my 
priority. It's why we have backports after all : provide a repository of 
tested packages from testing to stable users.

> Upgrading between Debian stable releases upgrades all software by
> 2 years, and there are in practice many cases where you cannot do
> the upgrade in one run.
> 
> And with providing testing and backports Debian is pushing users into
> many more situations where they have a mixture of stable and unstable
> installed.
[...]

2/ yes, of course, we support upgrading from stable to stable-next and during 
this upgrade you'll have a mixed installation. And of course, this issue 
#638008 is clearly serious for next release and 'll be fixed... Seriously, I 
don't understand what you are trying to demonstrate here.

Cheers,
-- 
Damien - Debian Developper
http://wiki.debian.org/DamienRaudeMorvan