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Re: Bug#54985: debian-policy: handling of shared libraries



On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> I wonder if apt-get could perhaps be enhanced to allow something like:
> apt-get --compile --dist=unstable foo
> Then you download just the unstable source and compile it locally.
> Would that be of help?  apt.sources would have to allow lines
> somwthing like:

Someday I'll probably add source selection stuff, but in the mean time
what most people I know do is set deb-src to unstable ande 'deb' to stable
and then operate like that.

> should be able to use them, too.  (It may do so already, I don't
> know.)

Not as yet.

> I don't know whether this is feasible to implement.

Yes, just not today :>

Jason


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