Hi, * Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> [2005-11-11 23:41]: > Op vr, 11-11-2005 te 15:28 +0100, schreef Nico Golde: > > So what about a special exception which provides updated > > lintian & linda packages for the stable distribution? > > Doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. You need no just > unstable's linda/lintian; you also need unstable's libraries to be able > to make sure your package will work and build on unstable. There's no > way around that; there's way too many libraries that might have their > SONAME bumped, way too many packages that might have been split (or > merged) so that the packages you need to build-dep on in stable don't > exist anymore in unstable (or vice versa), etc. > > "Just" including linda/lintian in stable doesn't fix that. [...] Yes you are right. Should I file a wishlist bug against linda and lintian to answer for the described warning procedure? Regards Nico -- Nico Golde - JAB: nion@jabber.ccc.de | GPG: 0x73647CFF http://www.ngolde.de | http://www.muttng.org | http://grml.org Forget about that mouse with 3/4/5 buttons - gimme a keyboard with 103/104/105 keys!
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