Re: Why discover1-data is so old in Debian Sarge, while in unstable is up to date ?
>>>>> "arno" == Arno van Amersfoort <arnova@eld.physics.leidenuniv.nl> writes:
arno> I don't agree on the fact that one might be better of with
arno> eg. backports.org . Main reason is that using backports
arno> packages can bring you a real "dependency" hell, as often
arno> backports packages also assume that you use several other
arno> packages from them aswell. Good examples are Samba &
arno> Spamassassin. I tried using those packages in the past but
arno> ended up building that stuff from source, as the backports
arno> packages demanded to almost upgrade half of packages on
arno> Woody system. This is something that volatile could fix: as
arno> these packages should solely depend on the default versions
arno> (dependencies) of the packages that ship with Stable
arno> (Sarge)....
This specific issue isn't a problem of backports.org but of
backporter (who did the backport) since he should try to avoid to
backport other dependencies if isn't really a need.
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