Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

[Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com>]

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