Re: Questions to testing/unstable
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com> wrote:
> Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
>> That's not true at all. It's quite possible (although probably a little
>> unlikely) to maintain your packages from a box running stable, if you like.
> I'ld rather not see people do that: it means we'll also be stuck with
> using old libraries when much newer ones might be available. Look
> at the total mess with different ncurses versions in potato for example.
Just because someone is running unstable, it doesn't mean that they're
compiling against the new -dev packages. Other things need to be done
to force people to upgrade, e.g., check build-time dependencies and/or
file bug reports.
In the case of ncurses, if someone bothered to file bug reports and/or do
NMUs, it would've been much better. In the end it was apathy more than
anything else.
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