Re: Request for backport of apt-cacher

[Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at>]

	Hi!

* bugtracker@slideomania.com <bugtracker@slideomania.com> [2008-12-17 11:22:49 CET]:
> since apt-cacher 1.5.3 as provided in etch unfortuately has lots of open bugs 
> (for instance http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478122) 
> compared to apt-cacher 1.6.4 as provided in lenny 
> (http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/apt-cacher/apt-cacher_1.6.4/changelog), 
> and the dependency on 'libwww-curl-perl (>= 3.12)' doesn't make it possible 
> to simply install lenny's version on etch via tweaked apt configuration, I'd 
> like to request a backport of lennys' apt-cacher to etch.
> 
> If Mark would assure me, that a dpkg -i --force-depends-version <...> is safe, 
> that solution would be okay, too, but I guess the dependency 
> on 'libwww-curl-perl (>= 3.12)' isn't there just for fun.

 I found in the changelog the hint that the dependency is there because
of this bug: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462523>

 Hope that helps.
Rhonda