Le Friday 18 July 2008 16:55:43 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit : > >You can link against library from bpo, but you need to be very carefull > > with the versions, since the build-dep resolver is, ahem..., complicated, > > and cannot be simulated beforehand... > > ...which means you don't really know what you've got: Imagine > backporting ffmpeg, backporting some packages against that ffmpeg, and > then update the ffmpeg backport. Is "binNMUs" then done automagically?
No. binNMU for bpo would be a killer feature for sure. > Yes, the problem is similar to main Debian (all packages are built > against unstable, not rebuilt when entering testing), but bpo has less > eyeballs, I suspect. > > Oh - and I suspect my example with ffmpeg is a quite valid one: Some > cases of undefined img_convert occur at runtime (try install freej in > Lenny and then update libav* to the ones from debian-multimedia.org ). Well, ffmpeg is a bad example since the devels still refuse to understand the meaning and goals of shared libraries and stable ABIs... Romain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
