On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > equiv is helpful! ^^^^^ <--- this should be equivs > > Is it best that Debian packages are parallel to all of these various > outside universes? Or is there a way that a Debian package can just grab > the lastest from SUn, and then note that you now have it?
I guess it depends upon how close you want to stay to the bleeding edge. For me, tracking the unstable distribution for packages which I am in keeps me close enough. Most of the Debian developers do a pretty good job of keeping up with the upstream releases, and if there's a lag it is frequently because there are difficulties in getting the package to work with the overall Debian distribution. In that case I am perfectly happy letting the developers get all of the kinks worked out. I suppose if you are the type who gets source straight out of CVS to compile it you could put something in your makefile to keep equivs happy. dt -- Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED]