Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Alternatively, version of dpkg could be lowered and functionality
> conditioned on the version of dpkg (thus implementing necessary logic to
> support older versions), it would imho be better and more flexible to
> please those backport-lovers, saving them and you time going
> patching/branching things around.
No. When we backport something, we are perfectly capable of backporting
dpkg-dev first.
Crap happens when you need backported debhelper, should whomever did that
backport have neglected to _change_ debhelper to do whatever is really
needed in the older distro.
This is not the sort of problem that backported dpkg-dev would ever cause.
Most of the time, all we backport-lovers really need is complete (and
properly versioned) build dependencies. It _does_ help if you stick to
debhelper and ucf functionality available on stable for packages that are
extremely likely to be backported, though.
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