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Re: Do I need 'unstable' for development?



On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:21:38PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote:
> No, you definitively don't need to run unstable. It's better if you run
> and develop on potato since then your package will also run there and
> potato users will also be able to use your package. 

There is no requirement that new packages work on old releases. New
packages should be linked against the latest libraries.

On the other hand, it would be nice if the latest libc6 was occasionally
backwards compatible.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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