Boris Toloknov wrote: > Will my system be broken after upgrading libc6* along with locales, > tzdata and binutils from testing(lenny) repository ? It probably won't. Lenny is in freeze for several months now. > If not then it > means that other programs ( for example bash ) are able to work with > libc6 <http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libc6> (2.7-*) instead of libc6 > <http://packages.debian.org/etch/libc6> (2.3.[56]*). On other hand I > don't think that dash (0.5.4-12) from lenny requires something that is > absent in libc6 <http://packages.debian.org/etch/libc6> (2.3.[56]*). Why > in that case dash and most/all of the program packages from testing > require the newer libraries from testing instead of stable ? It's part of development process. Developers just cannot test dash with 2.3.5, 2.3.6, 2.4.a-b, 2.5.c-d, 2.6.e-f etc. The main goal is achieve clean upgrade from previous stable release to next one (e.g. etch -> lenny) and proper working with libraries shipped into next release without regressions. > Typically I want to upgrade just some package like gcompris from > testing. What options do I have ? > 1) Upgrade the package along with a huge set of libraries it depends on. > But I don't want to make all my system testing/unstable. > 2) I can get the source of the newest gcompris, lib*-dev packages, > compile it and remove the source and lib*-dev. But it takes a lot of > time. Moreover I can do it but my wife can't and she doesn't understand > why it takes that much time to just install a newer version of some program. You wife probably is not administrator of a computer, is she? :) Other option is looking to backports.org site and search for the newer package versions compiled for Etch. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian APT contributor
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