I'm sorry Joseph, but you're trying to throw years of tradition out the window, and I just can't stand for it.
Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > Joseph Carter wrote: > > > Um. Given glibc2.1 it would be Very Unsmart to try to use potato packages > > > on a slink system. > > > > Arch: all > > Yes this could in theory work, but it's a very small subset of packages > and I'd rather it be considered the exception that these things do work > rather than the rule that all things should. > > Given that slink features apt and potato actually works best with it, this > will be a moot point. Just apt-get source what you need and build. Very > few things would this not work on---those few things including glibc, gcc, > and X, things which are simply not able to be easily built on many > workstations. Of these, X is the only thing you might really want to > upgrade in that manner. > > Everything else can just be rebuild if you need it and it's a hell of a > lot easier to get working that way. > > > In short partial upgrades of things in unstable should work where possible > (example that I am upgrading potato but perl5.005 is on hold because of > the large number of things depending on unversioned perl) but the same > sort of partial upgrade cannot be expected between stable and unstable > binaries. This is all we can reasonably be expected to provide. > > When slink's epic4 had a DoS in the ANSI color parser the fix was "install > potato's epic4"---but that couldn't be expected to work given potato is > glibc2.1 could it? In fact it wouldn't, so I rebuilt it on master. > > > > > I don't know who came up with the idea of partial > > > upgradability > > > > Partial upgradability has been something debian has always managed. Every > > single person who tracks unstable is using partial upgradability every > > single day. > > That's not the same thing as partial upgrades between releases. A full > upgrade from stable to unstable should work when possible (unstable CAN > break after all) but to the ability to install binaries from potato on a > slink system is insane at best. > > I hope this email makes more sense to you than it does to me. I'm going > horizontal for a number of hours now. > > -- > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux developer > PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Now we'll have to kill you." > -- Linus Torvalds > -- see shy jo
