<br>Here's a breakdown of the packages stats for sid sections which differ only in the handling of the broken_symlinks known problem.<br><br><font face="courier new, monospace"> Issue Error Diff<br>Pass 37010 31962 -5048<br>
symlink 4936 0 -4936<br>Fail 243 780 537<br> symlink 66 533 467<br>dep-fail 989 5501 4512<br><br>There are currently about 5000 packages tagged with broken symlinks. About 10% of these 'issue' packages move to failed-testing when broken symlinks are elevated to 'error' status. The rest move to dependency-failed-testing.<br>
<br>Half of the blocked packages contain only broken symlinks introduced by three packages in the error list - python-support, dictionaries-common, and vlc-data.</font><div><br></div>