Re: Improving dependencies on shared libraries
On Sat, 26 May 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 26 mai 2007 à 21:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > in the list of things that we can do to make it more easy to backport
> > packages, there's one important item: have a finer-grained system for
> > generating dependencies on shared libraries.
>
> Another important point: such a system would help a lot to obtain lower
> testing migration times, but it would not help backports at all, since
> you still have to rebuild the package against the stable libc.
If you can reuse most of the build-deps from testing instead of having to
recompile the build-deps too, it helps a lot. If you can reuse a
package from testing in stable without recompiling, it also helps. :-)
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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