On Sat, 12 May 2007 08:38:06 +0100 Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> wrote: > If the same method would work with more recent/powerful machines > running Debian then there is no real reason why Emdebian cannot do the > same with. s/with// > Once a library transition has occurred in unstable, packages that > depend on that library CANNOT be built on Etch and uploaded to Debian > unstable - the same is also true for Emdebian. As Etch has only > just been released, there are NUMEROUS library transitions occuring in > Debian unstable right now which were held back by the Etch freeze, > including libglib2.0-0 and libgtk+2.0-0 as well as glibc and gcc-4.1. > Once those transitions stabilise and the new versions migrate into > testing, it will be impossible to build on Debian Etch for Debian > unstable and I believe the same will have to be true for Emdebian for > the same reasons. (without using a chroot which brings us back to empdebuild) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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