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Re: Uploading packages built against testing?



Hendrik Sattler <debian@hendrik-sattler.de> writes:

> Am Montag, 29. Mai 2006 10:27 schrieb Frank Küster:
>> Would it be acceptable to build bacula (or any other package with that
>> problem) in an etch environment, or on sid with manually installed
>> libssl from etch, and upload that to unstable?  After checking that it
>> works in unstable, of course.
>
> No, but you could manually set all stuff in Depends to the needed versions. 
> That would also work for the buildds, I guess.

No, that would produce binaries that install with the wrong libs and
then just fail to start or segfault. If you do that you will get an RC
bug just on principal even if it does work out of sheer luck.

> HS
>
> PS: I bravely accept some flames for this suggestion...

MfG
        Goswin



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