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Please see below for details.
<sect1 id="testing-unstable">
<heading>Updates from unstable</heading>
+ <p>
The scripts that update the <em>testing</em> distribution are run each
day after the installation of the updated packages. They generate the
<file>Packages</file> files for the <em>testing</em> distribution, but
<p>
Consider this example:
<p>
- <tt>
- foo | alpha | arm
+ <example>
+foo | alpha | arm
---------+-------+----
testing | 1 | -
unstable | 1 | 2
-</tt>
+</example>
<p>
The package is out of date on alpha in unstable, and will not go to
testing. And removing foo from testing would not help at all, the package
<p>
However, if ftp-master removes a package in unstable (here on arm):
<p>
- <tt>
+ <example>
foo | alpha | arm | hurd-i386
---------+-------+-----+----------
testing | 1 | 1 | -
unstable | 2 | - | 1
- </tt>
+ </example>
<p>
In this case, the package is up to date on all release architectures in
unstable (and the extra hurd-i386 doesn't matter, as it's not a release
<p>
<sect2 id="rc">
- <heading>What are release-critical bugs, and how do they get counted?</headin>
+ <heading>What are release-critical bugs, and how do they get counted?</heading>
<p>
All bugs of some higher severities are by default considered release-critical; currently, these are critical, grave and serious bugs.
<p>
<heading>Make transition packages deborphan compliant</heading>
<p>
Deborphan is a program helping users to detect which packages can be safely
-removed from the system, ie the ones that have no packages depending on
+removed from the system, i.e. the ones that have no packages depending on
them. The default operation is to search only within the libs and oldlibs
sections, to hunt down unused libraries. But when passed the right argument,
it tries to catch other useless packages.
<p>
-For example, with --guess-dummy, tries to search all transitionnal packages
+For example, with --guess-dummy, tries to search all transitional packages
which were needed for upgrade but which can now safely be removed. For that,
it looks for the string "dummy" or "transitional" in their short
description.
<p>
-So, when you are creating ssuch a package, please make sure to add this text
+So, when you are creating such a package, please make sure to add this text
to your short description. If you are looking for example, just run:
<example>apt-cache search .|grep dummy</example> or
<example>apt-cache search .|grep transitional</example>.