On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:21:38PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > Nazdar, > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Karel Gardas wrote: > > > I have one question regarding creating debian package. Do I need > > unstable debian for this task? I'm asking because I run potato now and (if > > possible) wouldn't like to switch to unstable. > > No, you definitively don't need to run unstable. It's better if you run > and develop on potato since then your package will also run there and > potato users will also be able to use your package. On the other side it's > always better for testing/unstable if people run them so, bugs get sorted > out...
I think it is better to run unstable for building new packages, since : 1) no new package will get into potato anyway. 2) in running unstable, you help debugging it, which is required of developper in the later stages before a new release at least. 3) you will build your package against newer versions of the library. What does policy say about this exactly ? I think it is to use unstable, but i am not sure. Ideally, you would also have a chrooted stable environment, to build potato bug fixes or other such things. Or vice-versa ... Friendly, Sven Luther
