On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:05:49AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:42:33PM +1000 , Herbert Xu wrote:
> > FWIW, I do all my development under testing. I virtually ignore unstable
> > unless I need a specific package from it.
> but autobuilders will still compile with unstable, so it's really useless
> (even dangerous) to upload i386 build on woody, when autobuild packages are
> unstable.
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.
It's certainly okay to run from a somewhat out-of-date unstable box, and
that's essentially what testing ends up being. Some parts are obvious more
out of date than others, though.
Cheers,
aj
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