Re: Do developers tend to run unstable?
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:15:35PM -0000, Richard Taylor wrote:
> First of all, I am not a Debian developer. However, I would like to
> ask a question.
>
> Do you use a fully woody system for development of Debian
> packages? It seems to me that you would need to, but I would like
> to know from an actual developer's POV.
[snip]
I've been running off unstable ever since one year after I first switched
from Windows to Debian. So, yes, I'm running a woody system right now. And
since this is the only computer I own, my packages are built on a woody
system.
As far as the general trend goes, I think new package uploads are expected
to be built under woody, or at least, built with current woody shared
libraries (unless, of course, you're building a bugfix for a previous
release). This can be quite tricky to achieve you aren't actually running
a woody box: library dependencies often make it very hard not to upgrade
half your box to woody before you can build a package using the new
libraries.
T
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