Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

["Timothy H. Keitt" <tklistaddr@keittlab.bio.sunysb.edu>]

Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily 
update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that 
packages can be easily backported with 'apt-get -b source ...' My guess 
is that 60-90% of the packages in unstable do not require the latest lib 
versions to build, but that maintainers are defaulting their 
dependencies to be >= the latest version in unstable for no reason (of 
course, package name changes and package reorganization can throw a 
wrench into things). If maintainers default to only depend on what is in 
stable whenever possible, many many deb packages would compile just fine 
on both stable and unstable.

T.

Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:

> Yesterday at 18:21:63 you wrote the following wise words:
>
> > Also, I think there is a lot of need for this sort of work.  I've been
> > talking to some admins here about starting a project for backporting
> > sets of packages from unstable to stable to do 3-6month update packs
> > after stable comes out, the response has been positive.
> Now THAT sounds interesting! I surely hope you'll put it on an apt
> source on-line somewhere when finished? I do the backports myself now,
> but my system is quite a mess, now.. :-( And some programs just take up
> too much time to compile.

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Timothy H. Keitt
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