Re: Thanks for destroying the debhelper backport

[Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>]

Le Wednesday 03 September 2008 14:38:20 Alexander Wirt, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,

	Hi

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   debhelper: Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.15) but 1.13.25 is to be installed
>   E: Broken packages
>
> Test your packages before uploading. This is horribly broken.
> And no - don't try to upload a new dpkg.

Yes, I've made a mistake.

> If this is not fixed in the very near future this backport will be replaced
> with an older version and an epoch.

I've contacted Joey Hess to ask him the purpose of the versioned dep and if it 
can be removed.

I think that the issue can be mitigated by the fact that the previous backport 
(made by me if I remember well) is debhelper 5, meaning that no backported 
package would have build-dep on debhelper 7 before, so the default dependency 
resolver will still pull debhelper 5 from stable, and no backport can be 
built using debhelper 7, even using a misconfigured build-dep resolver that 
would pull from backport by default.


Romain