Re: The LinuxProblems page on the Autopackage wiki

2007/8/29, Damjan Jovanovic <[email protected]>:
>
> * The current practice is lockstep libraries, so at each point in time
> (eg. 6 months) you take the latest version of every library out there
> and compile them against each other to create a distribution. That's a
> terrible thing to do, because backporting a package to an older
> version of the distribution either means compiling it again against
> the older libraries, or dragging dozens of new libraries into the
> older version of the distribution when the user wants to install the
> tiniest backported package. I honestly don't understand why no
> distribution has pushed for binary compatibility to save themselves
> from all this pain.

Well, they practically make it a non-issue by (this is what Ubuntu
does, but I guess they all do something similar):
 * Version locking all packages - only compatible security/bug fixes
are available.
 * Let the world know: "this is CoolDistro vFOO - if you wanna build
packages for it - these are the rules."
 * Only support a few versions of the distro at any give time.
 * Let any backporting be done by a "third party" project and as such,
they aren't officially blessed.

-Isak

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