On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: [...] > > Don't upgrade one only package from potato because potato depends on > > glibc2.1 and some packages on perl5.005. > > No, feel free to install any package from *any* debian distribution onto > *any* other, so long as the dependancies allow you to do so. Debian intends > for these things to work.
It was so. But glibc2.0 and 2.1 can't coexist. Old binary perl modules can't coexist with perl5.005. You can expect unpredictable crashes during upgrade (as I did yesterday). I can suggest full upgrade to potato (but it isn't easy now). Mirek
