Maris, Rob wrote: > Next I describe a case which make me think that Debian has less a focus on > keeping less recent lib packages part of more recent debian versions. More > important: two other packages part of both Ubuntu and Debian prove to result > in removal of old programs on Debian, but not on Ubuntu! > > Regarding better backward compatibility: libjpeg8 and libpeg62 exists both in > Ubuntu (till today); but in Debian only the latter. In my case I had to > install libjpeg8 from ubuntu on my debian-based system (as well as > gstreamer0.10-plugins-good)
You have created a FrankenDebian. If you need to keep an old application running and you can't fix it to work with new libraries, you have entered the world of dependency management. Some general solutions: - run an old version of the operating system in a VM. This is the most reliable method. - use a container to supply exactly the versions of the libraries that the old application needs. This may eventually stop working when kernels or libc or similar basic infrastructure gets upgraded, but is pretty good otherwise -dsr-
