On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:25:45AM +0200, Michel D?nzer scrawled: > On Fre, 2003-04-04 at 00:57, Daniel Stone wrote: > > *sigh*. Imagine this. > > > > Qt has a compile-time ./configure check for Xrandr. If it finds it, it > > enables a few Xrandr related features, and links with Xrandr. > > > > Qt gets built with 4.3 and uploaded. Now you have to have 4.3 to run any > > Qt app. > > Why would Qt (or anything, for that matter) be built against 4.3? If that > happens, it's either for experimental as well, or the uploader(s) will get > bugs about it and should learn to use tools like pbuilder. Well, the maintainer dist-upgrades and gets 4.3. The scenario was for 4.3 being in sid, and 4.2 becoming second-class. I certainly do all of my builds within sbuild, and encourage others to do the same. > > So it's more work for all of us, for no advantage? > > If the increased potential for people to jump in doesn't count as an > advantage... Why would there be an increased potential? You need to be incredibly clueful and dedicated to jump in anyway ... -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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