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



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On Tuesday 19 November 2002 23:10, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:26:04PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >Build daemons _MUST_ build against unstable.  They do not always have
> >the absolute latest build-essential packages like GCC, but we try to
> >keep them close.

[snip]

> >And to not testing the versions of the compiler and libraries
> >in unstable.  Without which, testing goes to hell.
>
> This explanation discounts the possibility of people testing the
> unstable compilers by building things themselves (outside of the
> buildds.)

It doesn't stop people from using sid themselves, or from using a sid chroot 
to build packages/test unstable compilers.

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk

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