Re: effect of having stable and unstable listed in sources.list
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:16:24 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>I would not recomend mixing slink and potato sources. Early in the
>potato development this was possible as slink and potato were not too
>different and only a few files were updated. But now most files depend
>in some way on libc6 v2.1 or perl5.005 and will cause major problems if
>they are installed and you are not willing to upgrade yet.
A bigger problem is that quite some potato packages depend on a later
debhelper to be built on slink. Later debhelpers don't build on slink
because they need Test.pm which isn't installed with slink.
If there only were a debhelper > 2.0.51 for slink, running slink
wouldn't be such a pain.
Greetings
Marc
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