Debian/Ubuntu og kildepakker

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Lagde et innlegg med et spørsmål jeg virkelig lurer på på Ubuntuforums, og tenkte jeg skulle slenge det til dere kloke Debian/Ubuntu-hoder her òg:

 

Hi.

 

The one final thing keeping me from switching from Gentoo to Ubuntu, is the ability to pull in bleeding edge packages without doing deep upgrades.

Say, for example, that I am running Breezy and want Firefox 1.5. (I know that this is a bad example, seeing as Dapper is nearly out, but let's say that wasn't the case, for the sake of argument). In Gentoo, I'd emerge firefox, and it would be linked against various GTK and other libraries. No problem. In Ubuntu, I can use pinning to pull Firefox 1.5 from Dapper while keeping an otherwise Breezy system - except for one problem: This firefox is linked against slightly newer GTK and other libraries. Not because Firefox needs these, but because they're shipped with Dapper. Fine enough, but I don't want deep down libraries to be of Dapper versions - that could break my other Breezy packages. So, I start fiddling around with deb-src packages. People keep telling me Debian/Ubuntu does offer all the nicety of Gentoo's source based package system too, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, I just haven't understood it yet.

So anyway, I apt-get source -t dapper firefox. No problem. I enter the source directory, and issue dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b. OK, it needs a few devel-packages, and some of the ones I have are slightly off-version, some need downgrading - no biggie. At least I don't have to pull in Dapper packages. Then it builds and all is well.

The problem is that when it's done, I don't just get a Firefox deb, I get:

firefox-dev_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

firefox-dom-inspector_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

firefox-gnome-support_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

libnspr-dev_1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

libnspr4_1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

libnss-dev_1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

libnss3_1.firefox1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_i386.deb

mozilla-firefox-dev_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_all.deb

mozilla-firefox_1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu9_all.deb

, all of which need to be installed in order to install Firefox. Thus, I'm in the same pile of shit I'd be in if I fetched the Dapper Firefox binary - my libraries get non-Breezy-fied. Grr!

What am I missing? I refuse to believe that Debian/Ubuntu isn't able to give me the best of both worlds, I must be missing something.