Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?
Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> [...]
> > > Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on
> > > glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005.
> >
> > No, feel free to install any package from *any* debian distribution onto
> > *any* other, so long as the dependancies allow you to do so. Debian intends
> > for these things to work.
>
> It was so. But glibc2.0 and 2.1 can't coexist. Old binary perl modules can't
> coexist with perl5.005. You can expect unpredictable crashes during upgrade
> (as I did yesterday).
>
> I can suggest full upgrade to potato (but it isn't easy now).
As long as the condition Joey mentioned holds, there is no reason why
packages wouldn't work together. And I bet the unstable version of icewm
depends on "libc6 (>= 2.1)".
-Remco
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