Re: Why are new package versions depending on libc6 in unstable?
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:32:22PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> 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?
Many problems, such as the libpng2/libpng3 linkage chaos at the
beginning of this year, only occur when you actually try to run things.
Building against unstable allowed us to identify the problem in the
libpng development libraries as soon as possible and deal with it.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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