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Re: Why are new package versions depending on libc6 in unstable?



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On Tuesday 19 November 2002 21:56, 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...

I suspect that they run stable or testing and build programs in a sid chroot.

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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