Re: Why packages in testing/unstable require the newer shared libraries ?

Lyubimkin wrote: Boris Toloknov wrote: Will my system be broken after upgrading libc6* along with locales, tzdata and binutils from testing(lenny) repository ? It probably won't. Lenny is in freeze for several months now. If not then it means that other programs ( for example bas

Why packages in testing/unstable require the newer shared libraries ?

Hi All, I have debian stable (etch). Sometimes I want to install the newest versions of some packages from testing/unstable. Typically I can only install some package with the newer version of the shared libraries it depends on. For example dash (0.5.3-7) from etch depends on libc6