compiling potato packages on slink (Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?)

[navindra@cs.mcgill.ca]

> . . . why?  What's the purpose of making everything on machines
> running stable un-upgradable until some obscure Perl bug is worked
> out?  I just don't follow.

Which reminds me, building source packages is really not as easy as
one would hope it to be.  

I had to go through some contortions to build the potato ssh-1.2.27
package on slink.  Example: The perl5 dependency had to be edited to
make it a perl dependency.  libgmp2 had to be edited to gmp2.  A bunch
of fake PAM dependencies had to be removed...  ssh-ask control section
had to be removed since I was compiling on a non-X machine.  I had to
find a bunch of packages required for compilation by trial and
error...

BSD does kind of spoil you that way.

-N.