Re: "stable" packages on a "testing" installation?

From: Jason Rennie (jrennie_at_csail.mit.edu)
Date: 04/19/05

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    On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:16:57AM +0100, Phil wrote:
    > Could anyone advise if it's ok to download individual woody packages
    > from the debian site and install them on a sarge box?

    In general, you're likely to run into problems trying to do this since
    woody packages are compiled against library versions that aren't
    included in sarge. However, you might be able to get away with
    theme-converters since it doesn't directly rely on any C libraries.

    Jason 

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