Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previously Anthony Towns wrote: >> That's not true at all. It's quite possible (although probably a little >> unlikely) to maintain your packages from a box running stable, if you like.
> I'ld rather not see people do that: it means we'll also be stuck with > using old libraries when much newer ones might be available. Look > at the total mess with different ncurses versions in potato for example. Just because someone is running unstable, it doesn't mean that they're compiling against the new -dev packages. Other things need to be done to force people to upgrade, e.g., check build-time dependencies and/or file bug reports. In the case of ncurses, if someone bothered to file bug reports and/or do NMUs, it would've been much better. In the end it was apathy more than anything else. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt