Re: stable / backports (Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?)
Martin Schulze schrieb am Freitag, den 20. April 2007:
Hi Joey,
*snip*
> > Backports are recompiled packages from testing, so they will run without
> > new libraries on a stable Debian distribution. It is not always
> > possible to install a package from testing without pulling in lots more
> > packages from testing.
>
> Fwiw, backports also pull in newer version of certain libraries if they
> are needed by the backport.
We prefer to compile against stable versions of libs whereever possible.
So in a best-case-scenario all libs can be used from stable and don't have to
be pulled in from bpo.
Alex
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