Re: Thanks for destroying the debhelper backport
Romain Beauxis schrieb am Wednesday, den 03. September 2008:
> 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.
Thats not true. Several people are building their packages in a pbuilder
environment where the include bpo per default. I already had several
complaints about broken pbuilder setups.
Alex
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