testing & stable: vanished packages?

furufuru_at_ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Date: 09/29/05

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    Hi all,

    I'm wondering why some packages aren't available for
    the testing distribution. For example, I wanted to
    install apcalc (in the math section) but learned that
    it's available only for the unstable and stable
    distributions, not for the testing. (I searched
    at http://www.debian.org .)

    When sarge became the stable distribution, I read
    that initially the stable and testing distributions
    are the same but that packages in the testing keep
    upgraded, if I remember correctly. If that's so,
    some packages in the testing will get frequently
    upgraded and others will get upgraded less frequent
    or not at all, but there's no reason why a package
    must be removed, is there? (unless there's a security
    problem or some such serious problem.)

    I downloaded .deb files in the stable distribution
    of apcalc and installed them using "dpkg -i".
    I'm not very unhappy with that. But, I remain
    puzzled.

    Cheers,
    Ryo 

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