Re: boot-floppies 3.0.15
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 05:43:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
>
> > David Kimdon <David_Kimdon@alumni.hmc.edu> writes:
> >
> > > > > Builder must use debootstrap 0.1.15.5 (or better), and should use
> > > > > busybox 0.60.1-7 or better.
> > > >
> > > > Err, perhaps it would be a good idea to reflect (at least the former)
> > > > in the Build-Depends? (For next time, anyway)
> > >
> > > The problem is that they aren't really build depends,
> >
> > Err, perhaps I wasn't clear, I meant why not update the build-depends
> > to say 'debootstrap (>= 0.1.15.5)' as opposed to 'debootstrap'...
>
> No, you were clear, you just didn't understand David's reply.
>
> It's not a question of what version of the package is *installed*.
> It's a question of what version of the package is downloaded from the
> archive and built with. It will use the latest from unstable by
> default, but not all arches have new debootstrap ported yet.
But since boot-floppies build depend on debootstrap, they might as well
build-depend on the version we need for building (even though for building
it might not acutally need that version _installed_). Would have made me
build debootstrap first at least, which was not a big deal.
Christian
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