Martin Schulze schrieb am Freitag, den 20. April 2007: Hi Joey,
*snip* > > Backports are recompiled packages from testing, so they will run without > > new libraries on a stable Debian distribution. It is not always > > possible to install a package from testing without pulling in lots more > > packages from testing. > > Fwiw, backports also pull in newer version of certain libraries if they > are needed by the backport. We prefer to compile against stable versions of libs whereever possible. So in a best-case-scenario all libs can be used from stable and don't have to be pulled in from bpo. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
