On Tue, 08 May 2001, Sam Hartman wrote: > 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 depends on the outdated libraries that are in testing, > Or your could do shared library versions correctly so both versions > can exist. I realize it is hard, especially if your upstream is not That's a problem for the library maintainers, currently none of my packages are libraries. Correct versioning, as specified by the library package, is already carried over to any packages built against it. Anyway, avoiding to clobber an old lib in testing is not always possible, or desirable. Sometimes, old stuff has to be removed due to security holes, regardless of the fact that the ABI has changed. A serious proposal that library maintainers start doing backports from unstable security fixes to testing would die an horrible flaming death quite quickly IMHO. I won't touch the topic about QA and yet another (unsupported -- it won't be updated, because the ABI changed) layer of libraries. If I do not want to get caught in an ABI change, and help a breakage in testing, I have to build against unstable. It's that simple. If the ABIs of the libs it depends on didn't change, the package will make it to testing. If the ABIs changed, it won't (I am supposing the library package is doing things right on the .so versioning, shlib definitions and package naming area). AFAIK, testing is supposed to be a half-baked frozen distro. Its existance should be as transparent as possible for the developers, and help the deployment of the next stable distro by shortening the freeze time. It's NOT an always-safe distro, nor is it meant to be. It is not a very secure distro either because there are extra delays for a security fix to get to testing. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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