On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:09:14PM +0100, Luis Matos wrote: > > how about the development of tool on we could: > > - add the sid repos to sources.list > - with a simple command download every needed source package > (dependencies) > - build the packages > - install all the packages. >
A few caveats: - package names (especially libraries) often change between releases - not all current build-dependencies of the package may be in stable - of the resultant packages, some will conflict with each other Backporting is nearly always better left as a manual endeavour. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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