Copy packages to same PPA, different distro

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at canonical.com>:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:09:19PM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> I know but I'm not sure copying a binary between different
>> distributions (for instance, Gutsy and Hardy) makes sense, as the
>> binary would probably not work due to linkage issues.
>
> Copying forwards should be okay. Copying backwards will usually not work
> (unless the libraries really didn't break binary compat).

Not necessarily. If I build for Gutsy but the library breaks ABI  
compatibility in Hardy, the Gutsy binary won't work in Hardy (and of  
course the Hardy binary won't work on Gutsy, either).


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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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