Request for help: Distro releases and library version table

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>That's not beyond likelihood, I agree.  However, notice that already
>>Debian unstable does not include all the necessary dependencies, most
>>notably aqbanking.
> 
> 
> I separate out "does not include a dependent lib" from "contains
> a dependent lib too old to use".  The former is easier to deal with.
> You tell the user "you'll need to build and install foolib and then
> gnucash" whereas the latter means the user has to work around the
> too-old lib in order to build gnucash.
> 

FWIW, I just got done trying to compile G2 on a mixed testing/unstable 
platform and it was basically impossible (or really annoying anyway) 
without moving up to unstable. I suspect that the requirements for 
building on stable would make for a really ugly mixed system and would 
likely make people unhappy, if they could figure it out at all. 
IANADeveloper and IANADebianEpert.

A
> -derek