Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Eddy Petrior wrote: > >>> I have purged the changelog, because the data it contained is now >>> irrelevant. (Eddy, what is the point of build-depending on dpkg-dev? It >>> is build-essential, is it not?) >> You use a feature (the variables that allow bin NMUs) which is present only >> in dpkg-dev 1.13.19 or later. You have to have a versioned dependency on dpkg-dev. > > But why should anyone care? Even Stable now has 1.13.25. In any case, I Backports! And when I did the change, Sarge was still stable. > would consider versioned build-conflicts a cleaner solution. WHAT? I really don't understand where from did you get this type awry thinking. This is plain backwards tinking! Because that is *the* way you should do it when you rely on a feature present only starting with a version number. *The* clean solution is to depend on the version of the package that provides the functionality, not to refuse building on an older one. Using b-conflict is wrong since you don't have *neither* version of dpkg-dev, older nor newer, this would satisfy the conflict, but wouldn't be enough. (Yes, I know is build essential, but that is not the point.) Please look in the policy for the definition for B-conflicts and b-deps. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps >>> The package is set to Architecture: any, but this may not be the best >>> option. Warzone 2100 does not officially support 64-bit architectures, >>> and insists on being built as 32-bit application. >> Maybe we can patch that (I have a 64 bit system ;-) > > The official position is "not possible with 2.0, maybe in 2.1". I found I usually don't care that much about upstream's official position. I like to be the guy that makes upstream change their official possition ;-) > some patches that are said to bring initial support for 64-bit systems, > but I have not yet managed to find out where they ended up. Will try the > latest SVN some time later this week. Just tell me when I can try. If it doesn't work, I might work (depending on how much I like the game ;-) on completing the patches . -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
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