Re: Questions to testing/unstable
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 May 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I do all my development under testing. I virtually ignore unstable
>> unless I need a specific package from it.
> AFAIK, I cannot do that. If I build against testing, I help the breakage by
> adding yet another package that depends on the outdated libraries that are
> in testing, therefore helping those libraries to be held instead of
> upgraded. It's a positive feedback loop. Unless I misunderstand testing,
> obviously, and such loop does not exist.
That means the library maintainer has stuffed up. If he's done it
properly, his libraries can go into testing wihtout having to wait for
all its users to recompile. This used to be insignificant, but testing
has made it much more important which IMHO is a very good thing.
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