Re: Why are new package versions depending on libc6 in unstable?
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:56:18PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:56:17PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:47:12AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > > > That doesn't explain why packages are depending on the newer libc6 in sid
> > > > and making them testing/sarge incompatible.
> > >
> > > It is customary for developers to use sid on their development systems, and
> > > the buildds use that, too.
> >
> > I seriously doubt that the buildds actually run on sid.
> >
> Why do you think so? If they wouldn't run sid, they would not be able
> to satisfy versioned build-depends of packages that depend on sid
> versions...
That would only require -dev packages, and that would be sane, but I
wouldn't want a compiler that was just uploaded yesterday to be compiling
for all other packages in a distribution.
Now, if sid binary packages are used on the debian buildds, there is
hopefully a very competent sysadmin managing all of the packages going
through the system...
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