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

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:36:27AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> We want the _libraries_ to be tested, *before* they move to testing.

> The libraries DO get tested, by everyone running the unstable binary
> version.  That does NOT mean that you have to compile against it.  You know
> that it compiles by the fact that the library package itself built, and you
> know if the library works by running programs with that binary package
> installed.

This argument only holds for forward compatible changes, and I have 
another one:

We want the development-package of the libraries to be tested, *before*
they move to testing.

I want to know whether compiling xxx against libblah triggers bugs,
using libblah-dev from sid on the autobuilders at least gives me a
chance to do that.
           cu andreas