On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:31:57PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > on most of our production servers, we are running potato because it is > stable. If we need newer packages, we routinely backport sid packages > to potato by simply re-building them. > > These backports are becoming increasingly difficult because more and > more packages begin to rely on debhelper 3.x. There are issues > regarding suid binaries and man pages since the way debhelper handles > these changed with debhelper 3.x. We usually fix the suid cases > manually and remove the man pages. > > However, this is becoming a nuisance. Backporting debhelper 3 to > potato does look non-trivial because debhelper seems to Depend heavily > on perl 5.6. > > Did anybody backport debhelper 3 to potato, and would be willing to > share her packages? Or will a debhelper 3 backport be easier than it > looks like? i looked into doing it myself just to ease some of my own backporting, but that perl-5.6 dependency is simply a killer, unless you hack perl-5.6 into your system in such a way that perl-5.005 remains default you will very badly break your system (debconf in particular). by the time you work around the perl thing you have a woody system so there isn't much point. you would be better off helping out with boot-floppies so woody can be released sooner ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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