Re: Build a package for backports against libs in backports
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/>
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