On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 18:02 -0400, Silvan wrote: > On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:52 am, Carl Fink wrote: > > BTW, using information from > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html > > > > section 6.14, you can quite easily recompile a Sid package using the Woody > > libraries to run under Woody (unless the program requires actual features > > not available in the older libs). > > Which a vast heaping many of them probably do. Woody is 40,000 years old, and > developers don't like to be constrained to features that were only available > when mankind was first taming fire. Not when there's some new API call that
This is nice speculation I suppose, but in practice, I have not run into any packages that can't be compiled on woody, and only a few that required a whole lot of supporting packages to be backported. The folks over at backports.org certainly seem to have been able to backport a good many packages. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
