Re: Which versions of libraries are developers supposed to compile against?

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Subject: Re: Which versions of libraries are developers supposed to compile against?
From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:31:57 +0900
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Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> immo vero scripsit

> But when things start being properly, but gradually frozen, presumably 
> that simple strategy won't be sufficient.  Because if balsa
> Build-Depends on libfoo-dev, and libfoo is frozen, I want the woody
> version of libfoo-dev, not the unstable (sid) one.

I guess using a woody chroot to build packages would be an idea,
because presumably, you can't really downgrade libraries very easily.



regards,
	junichi


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