> What packages are outdated? Wt was not included in Hardy officially. I > don't understand.
Boost for example is an older version than the one required by Wt. > If "alternate package repositories" means the repository mentioned in > the wiki (i. e. my PPA), the "risk" is exactly the same "risk" you > incur by using the official Ubuntu package. I tried this on another machine first and the result was that once I added the repository half of the system was replaced when I updated. Maybe I made a mistake but this is nothing I expected. What I expected was the addition of Wt and the replacement of Boost and perhaps zlib and libgd. I am conservative here - so I want to build Wt without affecting the rest of the system. The production machine is a remote Rootserver (WITHOUT console access), so I have to be careful. There are about ten other different applications running on it that are used by customers and some of them are very fragile. > I am the Debian packager > for Wt. In fact, using the package from my PPA is probably safer > because I may have fixed some bugs Yes, I am aware of this and I value your efforts very much. > I was not aware of anybody using Wt on Hardy. If you change your mind, > tell me and I will backport the latest packages for Hardy too. No need to - I will build Wt myself, that way I learn something and I have everything under my control. No offense to you - I do this often to avoid dependencies. For example I use Zope too and provide my own Python build for this. This way nothing can go wrong if the package maintainers update the Python package. And yes, I am aware that I have to track all the security problems myself :) With kind regards, Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ witty-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/witty-interest
