Re: "best practices" on debian

From: Colin Watson (cjwatson_at_debian.org)
Date: 12/31/03

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To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote:
    > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:51:10AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
    > > I agree with those who've mentioned /usr/local. Trying to mix testing
    > > and unstable is likely to be confusing, particularly if you're new to
    > > Debian.
    >
    > like what curse happen?
    > Show me some cases if you don't mind.
    > though I've been using mixture of testing and unstable,
    > I've never met any disastar... yet.

    Let's take an example from the C++ transition, when C++ library packages
    were rebuilt and got a "c102" suffix added to their name. Since the
    library name itself stayed the same, the old and new packages had to
    conflict. Say a group of packages depends on libfoo1 in testing, but
    libfoo1c102 in unstable. If you try to install any of those from
    unstable then a bunch of other packages will get removed, and
    particularly if you're new to Debian you won't know why.

    The perl 5.6 -> 5.8 transition was similar but worse. Python
    transitions, same deal, and so on, and so forth. If something is stalled
    in unstable for a long time it's often because it will cause problems if
    you try to install it on a testing system.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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