Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Tobias Burnus wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> houghi wrote:
> > That does already exist. Sort of. Stable is 10.1. Testing is Factory and
> > unstable is adding extra repositories and install stuff from non-suse
> > places.
> >
> > As least that is how I see it.
> >   
> Well, sometimes the dependencies are broken in Factory. Therefore I
> would label Factory as "Unstable" and the alpha releases as "Testing".
> 
> Actually, I really dislike how long it sometimes takes until the
> dependencies are corrected. For instance gcc-fortran was split into
> libgfortran.rpm and gcc-fortran.rpm. It took about three weeks until
> also the libgfortran.rpm was part of Factory. (I think also the current
> Factory tree has packages-dependency problems, at least I miss two
> xorg-x11-lib*rpm packages: libXft.so.1 and libXaw.so.8. The xorg*rpm are
> all dated  6 to 8 Aug.)

Did you file bug reports?

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