Re: Proposed change to debian release system

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:22:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:56:51PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > SpamAssassin in unstable depends on a version of libhtml-parser-perl 
> > more recent than the one in unstable.
> 
> 2.60-1 (with incorrect dependencies according to #214019, fixed in
> 2.60-2) installs and works fine on woody. 
> 
> SA only depends on perl >= 5.6, so perhaps the deps could be changed to
> only require the newer libhtml-parser-perl if perl 5.8 is being used.

OK, you have shown that it would be possible in this specific case.

But perhaps the next version of SpamAssassin will _require_ Perl 5.8 
[1].

Besides this, you can install the 2.60-1 spamassassin deb on stable, but 
you can't fulfill the build dependencies (debhelper), which would become 
a nightmare if there would e.g. be a security update required.

> Hamish

cu
Adrian

[1] This is meant as an example. It might be untrue for SpamAssassin, 
    but I hope you get the point.

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