Re: building packages on unstable for stable

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Holger Kubiak wrote:

> I want to build a package on my computer for several other hosts at work.
> I use unstable but on some other hosts there is stable. My problem is:
> Building packages with debhelper causes a dependency (expanded from
> shlibs:Depends) of the package libc6 at least at the version used on my
> unstable. This package cannot be installed on stable, because the
> libc6/stable is too old.
>
> Does anyone know how to build this package with other dependencies?

Create a stable chroot environment using debootstrap.

(But maybe building it on a stable system, if you can, would be easier).