Re: Why are new package versions depending on libc6 in unstable?
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:25:28PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:13:42PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >I'm not saying this is the only way that can happen; VNC could just
> >have been built first and never rebuilt against the new libc6. That
> >happens a lot. But this way you can upload packages which are already
> >unbuildable.
> >
> >That's bad, mmkay?
>
> It's no different than the current situation. You admitted yourself that
> it could happen right now if nobody uploaded a new vnc when the new libc
> is in unstable. So I'm not sure what the point is. The only way to deal
> with that is to continuously rebuild testing. (Isn't somebody doing this
> already?)
>
Why not build against testing by default, and have something auto-build
against unstable and report to the maintainers of the package that won't
build and the libary it won't build against whenever there is an error?
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