Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > [...] > > > Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on > > > glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005. > > > > No, feel free to install any package from *any* debian distribution onto > > *any* other, so long as the dependancies allow you to do so. Debian intends > > for these things to work. > > It was so. But glibc2.0 and 2.1 can't coexist. Old binary perl modules can't > coexist with perl5.005. You can expect unpredictable crashes during upgrade > (as I did yesterday). > > I can suggest full upgrade to potato (but it isn't easy now).
As long as the condition Joey mentioned holds, there is no reason why packages wouldn't work together. And I bet the unstable version of icewm depends on "libc6 (>= 2.1)". -Remco