On 5 Nov 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > The more serious issue, though, is: autobuilders will build jikes > against the libstdc++3 version in unstable, and the resulting binary > will depend on it. That is it will depend on libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-1) > on mips, libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-2) on alpha, etc. And testing has > 1:3.0.2-0pre010922 currently, so -- guess what -- jikes won't get into > testing still.
It will get into testing when all the libs it depends on are in testing. Please, go learn how testing works. > I grew bored with the second option and resorted to cheating: I forced > the dependency on libsdtc++3 down via shlibs.local. This is evil > insofar as it breaks your program if it relies on functionality > introduced between 3.0.2-0pre010922 and 3.0.2-3. I don't recommend > this, YMMV, don't try this at home, kids. What package was this? I'm going to file a bug.
