Peter Samuelson wrote:
[Ken Bloom]I'm confused. One making backports from sid to woody should backport a package in such a way that it is buildable with woody's build-essential.
AFAICS, that's no more true for build-essential than for anything else. That is, you can either backport it so it builds using packages in stable, or you can backport the build dependency too. Backporting build-essential is pretty easy if everything it depends on is already in sarge -- it's a no op. It'd seem strange to do anything else...
Yes. Same will be true backporting to sarge. But if sarge build-essential were to be updated to contain debhelper (>= 4), that would make less work for backporters than if this same change were made only post-sarge.
That's crazy talk. If it's true, you're surely doing something wrong. Cheers, aj