Author: Martin Steigerwald Date: To: Andreas Messer CC: DNG Subject: Re: [DNG] Apt version in Ceres
Hi Andreas, hi,
Andreas Messer - 27.09.25, 22:15:51 CEST: > Am Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 08:22:01PM +0200 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > I see Debian FTP masters accepted Apt 3.1.6 into Debian Unstable, yet
> > in Devuan Ceres I see:
> >
> > % LANG=en apt policy apt
> >
> > apt:
> > Installed: 3.0.3devuan1
> > Candidate: 3.0.3devuan1 […] > > Any particular reason for that difference or difficulty to deal with?
>
> as far as I know, excalibur is not yet through the door. So I assume
> that package uploads to testing/unstable will end up in excalibur and
> not in ceres. To prevent wrong versions in excalibur and avoid
> unnecessary disturbance of excalibur release process I have currently
> suspended the "unstable" suite tracking of all the debian packages I
> maintain.
Ah, okay. Absolutely fair enough.
I noticed the 3.03 version is matching the one in Debian 13 aka Trixie.
> However, I barely remind some email a while ago that there was something
> changed in our build server regarding this so maybe this is no more an
> issue.
Never mind. I am fine with it. Was just curious about the background.