Re: Build a package for backports against libs in backports

[Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org>]

Thanks, Russ, for clarification. I am trying to bring
freecad into backports, but it requires a new library
version to escape license problem.

Best regards,

Anton

2013/6/1 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
> Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org> writes:
>
>> is it possible to build a package against libraries, which
>> are in backports? Or it should only be libraries, which
>> are in stable release? E.g. do the buildds for wheezy-baclports
>> are having "wheezy-backports" in /apt/sources.list.
>
> You should, in general, build against the libraries in stable if you can.
> However, if the functionality of the backport depends on libraries in
> backports, you are allowed to build against them.  Just please keep that
> to a minimum because it requires people upgrade more of their system to
> use the backport (and be sure to use proper versioned Build-Depends to
> ensure that any other builds pick up the appropriate library).
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>