Re: Status of Slink

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> No, I'm not.
> 
> > On just the subset of packages installed here, that's 178 that need 
> > libc6 >=2.0.7u. If we're going to mandate recompiling them all, we HAVE to
> > push slink release back...
> 
> You don't have to do it yourself, you don't have to do anything by hand. Every 
> maintainer of such packages just has to:
> 
> cd /the/directory/my-package-1.2.3
> dch -n  # (add frozen)
> build   # (add coffee here)
> dupload --to master ../my-package-1.2.3-1_i386.deb
> 
> Why the trouble? Because, otherwise, people will be *forced* to upgrade to 
> slink, which is not why I use Debian. I use it because it allows me to run new 
> packages on old systems, unlike f... commercial Unices.

Can you publish a list of package that need to be recompiled
and which version of libc, libstdc++, libgtk libwhatever has
to be installed before compiling.

Thanks,

	Joey

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