On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:27:21AM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:
>>>Expecially since the exim4 that actually is in debian is labeled
>>>'experimental'. I've been running it for months w/o problems. just upgrade
>>>libc6 and install exim4 packages.
>> Upgrading libc6 on Debian stable is about as stupid as one can be.
>> That way, you'll get the bugs in unstable, and the staleness of
>> stable.
> By that sounds like you're saying upgradeing from stable to new stable is
> about as stupid as one can be as well.
No. But upgrading the central library libc6 from *unstable* just to upgrade
one or two packages from unstable is.
[...]
> I see nothing misleading about this. If I'd had problems doing this I
> wouldn't have even suggested it. Would you have rather suggested they go
> download everything they need and recompile? This is simply easier to do
> and isn't problem causing.
If you want to minimize work use a backport.
http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/
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