Re: symbol patterns in .symbols files prior to dpkg-1.15.6
Hi Henrique,
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.
probably you are right... but we do not know for sure. dpkg-dev is the
core component, and went from 1.14. series to 1.15 from lenny to
squeeze... noone backported it, nor gettext (its build-dependency) so
we do not know for sure if backported version could not lead to
some interesting side-effects.
thus I thought that making few leaf packages friendlier to older versions of
dpkg-dev would be easier, than taking care about correct backporting of
the core components
> 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.
well -- I can only agree with that ;-)
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