Re: "stable" packages on a "testing" installation?

[Phil <maillists@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:35:23 -0400, you wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:16:57AM +0100, Phil wrote:
>> Could anyone advise if it's ok to download individual woody packages
>> from the debian site and install them on a sarge box?
>
>In general, you're likely to run into problems trying to do this since
>woody packages are compiled against library versions that aren't
>included in sarge.  However, you might be able to get away with
>theme-converters since it doesn't directly rely on any C libraries.
>
>Jason


Thanks Jason,

I think it's time I made an effort to do things properly and learn how
to build packages from source the debian way.

Phil