[OpenSER-Devel] debian packaging - etch vs. unstable

[Klaus Darilion]

Dan Pascu wrote:
> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Henning Westerholt wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> i would like to fix the library version for berkeley db in
>> the /packaging/debian directory. 4.5 is not available in etch, only
>> 4.4. Dan changed in commit 2910 the libsnmp depends to unstable, so we
>> have apparently a conflict here.
> 
> I was under the impression that the debian tree was for unstable, while 
> debian-sarge was for debian stable. If it was for etch, my mistake, you 
> can revert them. However I need to mention that when the debian package 
> is built and uploaded, it'll be first uploaded into unstable. Nobody can 
> push new packages into debian stable unless they are security fixes. So 
> we still need a directory for debian unstable.
> 
>> It would make sense to create a new directory "debian-etch" like the
>> available sarge dir, then changes for unstable would not conflict with
>> stable.
> 
> Probably it would make sense to replace debian-sarge with debian-etch 
> since sarge was replaced by etch as the stable distribution.

No - don't remove sarge. I guess I am not the only one using oldstable 
(sarge) (never change a running system)

regards
klaus