On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:51:07AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > I'd like to hear how Debian old-timers work with this. > > we deal with it. i run cyrus imap 1.5.x and many other "old" packages > from stable. they are in stable for a reason..they are stable :) I don't agree. I think "stable" is an innapropriate name. The prime example for this is slink, which included GNOME 0.3.something. This was released after GNOME 1.0 came out. Let me tell you, there was nothing at all "stable" about GNOME 0.3 ever. I wish we could come up with better terms than stable, testing, and unstable. I have yet to think of any, though. In answer to the original question, deb-src lines in your source.list are extremely helpful. They will get even better once woody is released, since apt-get will handle not only binary dependecies but source dependencies. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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