Re: potato late, goals for woody (IMHO)

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 09:09:37AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> was heard to say:
> I think debian should try to release more often with
> smaller goals.  What I sometimes do is to upgrade
> packages that I use from source if I really need the
> latest and a .deb does not exist.  True I can grab a
> package from unstable, but many times unstable is
> already using a newer libc or something and I DON'T
> WANT to upgrade to the latest libs and risk breaking
> everything else.  We need a side directory with
> "unstable" versions of newer packages for the current
> "stable" release.

  One way around this is to point your binary apt line at stable, but your
source apt line at unstable, so stuff you build from source is up-to-date.
(things like changes in policy might cause difficulty here, though)

  Daniel