Bug#630787: can not update/install morituri because of a syntaxerror

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Mon Aug 8 09:44:17 UTC 2011


On 11-08-08 at 11:07am, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am 08.08.2011 10:44, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> >We do not solve this issue by educating Debian packages more widely 
> >about weird possible combinations of packages: Debian support 
> >upgrades one stable release at a time - Debian do *not* support 
> >keeping around old packages!
> 
> It is exact this point that I abut on. Is this principle documented 
> somewhere, e.g. in Debian policy?

Good question.  I don't know if it is written down explicitly.


 - Jonas

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