Re: Questions to testing/unstable

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>]

>>>>> "Henrique" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

    Henrique> AFAIK, I cannot do that.  If I build against testing, I
    Henrique> help the breakage by adding yet another package that
    Henrique> depends on the outdated libraries that are in testing,
    Henrique> therefore helping those libraries to be held instead of
    Henrique> upgraded.  It's a positive feedback loop. Unless I
    Henrique> misunderstand testing, obviously, and such loop does not
    Henrique> exist.

Or your could do shared library versions correctly so both versions
can exist.  I realize it is hard, especially if your upstream is not
committed to multiple major versions/versioned symbols/whatever is
necessary, but it is the correct solution and you can certainly strive
for it.