On Wednesday 01 October 2003 18:29, Vincent Danen wrote: > Probably not. But if you, as a contributor, have a cooker > machine and compile on cooker, how can you possibly know if > your package, despite having conditional build macros, will > work with an older distrib if you don't take the time to build > and test on that old platform? So you *do* need to maintain
This is why there are a dozen sites out there like mine, where people who don't use cooker build the contrib packages they need for their version of the distribution and offer them for other people in the same boat. I seem to remember some dissatisfaction on the list about this situation; correct me if I'm wrong. Rob
