Re: backport for aptitude
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:49:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:13:02PM +0100, Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> > I just tried this: I had to backport the following packages as well to
> > fullfill aptitude's build-deps:
> >
> > apt
> > cwidget
> > ikiwiki (cwidget build fails with ikiwiki from etch, even though the
> > build-deps don't state a certain version)
>
> Please don't backport ikiwiki without talking to me or at least
> bringing it up in #ikiwiki.
... especially since ikiwiki is 2.40 in sid, lenny and bpo. So why
backport if there is already an up-to-date ikiwiki at bpo.
> And to get to Axel's point, it's not really any more strange to
> depend on ikiwiki than on asciidoc or python-docutils, or even gcc.
> ikiwiki is just a compiler.
I somehow suspected such an answer...
Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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