Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Montag, 29. Mai 2006 10:27 schrieb Frank Küster: >> Would it be acceptable to build bacula (or any other package with that >> problem) in an etch environment, or on sid with manually installed >> libssl from etch, and upload that to unstable? After checking that it >> works in unstable, of course. How about waiting for openssl? As has been pointed out, openssl is frozen for technical reasons and the new version will enter testing all right[1].
> No, but you could manually set all stuff in Depends to the needed versions. > That would also work for the buildds, I guess. And break at the next opportunity (binNMU, recompile, update in a hurry...). Such hacks are almost certainly a bad idea, in fact John had a complaint of similar type about the bacula packaging from before he took over. > PS: I bravely accept some flames for this suggestion... Oh, if you insist: To be frank, maintainers having such ideas are bad enough, but you'd better have a good excuse for handing them out as advice. Kind regards T. 1. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=openssl -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
