On Sunday 26 December 1999, at 16 h 15, the keyboard of Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I note that the versions in "unstable" are more recent. It is quite common. The opposite would be funny :-) > Can I upgrade > from "unstable" or will there be a problem related to the "glibc 2.1" > issue ? Not all packages depend on libc. Debian packages Web pages tell you so. For instance, "docbook" only depends on sgml-data and sgml-base (which makes sense, this is not code, only data). In practice, it should be (my advice, your machine) harmless to upgrade DocBook packages on slink. If you come from RedHat, one <emphasis>important</emphasis> advice: never force dpkg if it complains about dependencies. > Should I wait for the release of Potato? Your choice. > Norm Walsh issues updates/fixes to his modular style sheets quite > often. How soon are these changes incorporated into the relevant .deb > packages ? The "docbook" Debian maintainer does it quite often.
