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Re: Which versions of libraries are developers supposed to compile against?



On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:31:57PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> spake forth:
> Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> immo vero scripsit
> > But when things start being properly, but gradually frozen, presumably 
> > that simple strategy won't be sufficient.  Because if balsa
> > Build-Depends on libfoo-dev, and libfoo is frozen, I want the woody
> > version of libfoo-dev, not the unstable (sid) one.
> 
> I guess using a woody chroot to build packages would be an idea,
> because presumably, you can't really downgrade libraries very easily.

This may be a resolved issue, but last I heard source-only uploads did not
work. While I understand that how katie and the pools deal with packages
make it difficult to allow source-only uploads that are picked up by the
buildd's, it would be incredibly useful to do, after testing a successful
binary package build of course, a dpkg-buildpackage -S and upload the
_sources.changes and associated files.

If the build environment on the buildds isn't what you need, you're up shit
creek without a paddle regardless - unless you have the time and access to
build for every arch we're releasing for everytime you make an upload...

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Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>
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