On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:36:35 +0100 Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:46:44 +0200 > Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote: Apologies Rene, got you mixed up with Dirk re the R packages. The bit about the epoch and the upload was intended for the R maintainers. > > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:23:36PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > It is installable from experimental if the local setup is correct. It's > > only a change to apt sources and preferences, in a chroot if necessary. > > How trivial do you want it? > > > > All uploads not destined for wheezy go into experimental, all packages > > in unstable and experimental are available for builds within > > experimental. New stuff which would break things in unstable goes into > > experimental. What's so hard about that? > > > I am telling about the general case. > > > > That your simple toy packages are not affected by this because they don't > > have as much r-deps as e.g. libreoffice. fine. But that doesn't make > > the problem go non-existant. It may require a little preparation, yes, but it clearly does work. > I've worked on quite a few packages with this method over the years, > some core stuff like curl, cairo, ldap, cups, etc. and then there's all > the cross-build, multiarch stuff which is often dealing with toolchains > and low level libraries. Don't lecture me about rdeps and dismiss the > advice of your peers as the ramblings of fly-by-night maintainers of > "toy" packages. I'm going to stop here before I dig myself an even bigger hole... -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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