On Sat, 26 May 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 26 mai 2007 à 21:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > in the list of things that we can do to make it more easy to backport > > packages, there's one important item: have a finer-grained system for > > generating dependencies on shared libraries. > > Another important point: such a system would help a lot to obtain lower > testing migration times, but it would not help backports at all, since > you still have to rebuild the package against the stable libc.
If you can reuse most of the build-deps from testing instead of having to recompile the build-deps too, it helps a lot. If you can reuse a package from testing in stable without recompiling, it also helps. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]